Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...taken up by Yale and years after worked successfully against later Harvard teams. We must have some way of profiting by the experience of past teams; we must, in other words, make some system. Origination is delightful, but system is successful. To rehabilitate the Trophy Room is a small step, but it is a step in the right direction. We earnestly hope to see it taken, and more earnestly still hope that many similar steps will succeed...
...faculty took a very important step in the year under review, in deciding that after the academic year 1895-96 no person should be admitted as candidates for degree without examinations, except Bachelors of Arts, Literature, Philosophy, or Science, at some one of 106 institutions named...
...case of baseball for the perfectly obvious reason that there was no undergraduate for the place. As a matter of principle, and not in any way on personal grounds, the committee has chosen this, its only consistent course. Just at this time it is most important that no step be taken in Harvard athletics which shall make a bad precedent, for the eyes of the colleges and of the public are turned toward the University to set the pace in athletic legislation. The rules which went into effect on January first are meeting with very general approval and are being...
...Harvard has taken a step in regard to athletics that surpasses in independent regard for the purification of them, anything that has been done...
...purse strings as is exerted by the Promenade. It is a relief to find a paper which is willing for once to open its eyes to the fact that Harvard men are no worse money-spenders than many other college men. If papers would take one step farther they would see that the spirit of snobbishness, which people talk so much about in connection with Harvard, is a delusion. There is an aristocracy at Harvard, but it is for the most part an aristocracy of character and personality, not of wealth. In the long run and in the majority...