Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...report of this meeting hitherto published has any basis of authority, the three chairmen having agreed that the first information in regard to their conference should be given to the Daily Princetonian, the Yale News and the CRIMSON for simultaneous publication this morning...
...Hitherto unpublished facts concerning the life of Lieutenant-Colonel James A. Shannon, former commandant of the University R. O. T. C., who was killed in action October 8, 1918, have recently been received by the CRIMSON. When the American forces began the great drive against the Germans in the Argonne region on September 26, Colonel Shannon obtained permission to leave an important post in the Personnel Bureau and go to the front. During the terrific fighting trained officers were in demand, and he was given command of a certain infantry regiment in the absence of its colonel. For his efficient...
...Hitherto the continued maintenance of a course such as English A has been justified as a measure of social prevention, so to speak. Slightly altering the words of the founders of Harvard College, we may say that our academic forebears instituted this course, "dreading to leave an illiterate body of undergraduates to the college, when our present scholars shall lie in the dust." The purpose of English A, therefore, has heretofore been to insure among the undergraduates a fair knowledge and ability in the writing of English composition. In what conceivable way, then, is the value of this course...
...occasion of the death of any great man and the accompanying review of his life and doings, one is suddenly minded of one's own shortcomings and the imperfections that hitherto had lain deeply hidden beneath an ever accumulated mass of self-satisfaction. Then it is that the ardent disciple of greatness pauses in his oftentimes misguided course, and, being seized with a wholesome attack of doubts and misgivings, humbly seeks to mend his ways...
Since a degree and not a commission has become the new goal of every undergraduate still in the military units, hitherto inexorable military rules and regulations should be relaxed as far as is practicable. It is but a few weeks until the non-commissioned officers and privates will all be civilians pursuing their regular college work again. Consequently, it is vastly more important to them and to the Nation, too, that they should have adequate time for the preparation of college courses, than that the doorknobs of the Freshman dormitories should outshine...