Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...practice of starting and of interference. The game dragged because of the necessary halts which had to be called to correct the prevailing faults. A team must first inculcate the principles of play before it can exercise them. Hence the practice such as yesterday is inevitable and simply a step in the general progress of the eleven...
ALWAYS AHEAD.- Paine's Furniture Company, 48 Canal street, always try to go one step farther than any other furniture house, and do a little better by a customer either in the matter of quantity, quality or price. An instance of this appears in their advertisement in another part of this paper of an easy chair which they sell upholstered in leather in the extra size (only found in clubs, public places, etc.) at no greater price than that charged for the ordinary chair in other stores...
...life, destroys it. To understand the life of man, we must look on it not in detail but as a whole; and we can get no rational view of it till we know the history of its past, of that development in which the present is but a single step...
...dominate all the class football work this fall. One day twenty-five men will appear, and the next day only ten may be on hand. This is more dispiriting to a captain and a coacher than actual misplay when the men are out, for poor material is one step better than no material at all. It is marvellous with what equanimity a freshman team will persist in its childishness when all the football men in college are talking about it and frowning...
...call special attention to the article on departmental libraries published in another column of this issue. No better step has been taken by the University than the provision of these rooms where men may go with some hope of finding what they want and of finding it where they expect it. The libraries are comparatively small and are very easy of access; then, too, general readers are kept out by the system of loaning keys and a great deal of the confusion incident to general reading rooms is then done away with. Several copies are generally provided when books...