Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...proposed to unite the University of New York with Columbia College. Committees for this purpose have been appointed and will soon get to work. This surely is a good step, and the combination will certainly be of more credit to New York City than either of the colleges taken separately...
Trafford was as steady as could be desired at first, and seemed to step right into his last year's playing without trouble. Whittemore ran bases very well, but seemed a little careless on ground balls. The game was played as on Friday, nine out on a side, and repeating the plays when necessary...
...that a set of smaller matches might be arranged before the meeting, where men would have a chance to arouse more enthusiasm for the sport, and get greater confidence in their own ability. Such a plan might be made to work, or it might not; at any rate some step should be taken to keep the interest in sparring alive...
...altogether. From this state of things the Athletic Association has rallied well, and has set the winter meetings again on the road to success. It has still much work to do, to make the success of the meetings permanently assured; but it may well feel satisfied with the step it has thus far taken. Continuous exertion, and co-operation on the part of the college, ought to bring the meetings next year up to a high standard...
...letting up of the strict system of prescribed classical courses. Previously this physics has been a required study of the junior year. Next year, however, the junior class will be allowed more freedom in its choice of electives than has been given any of the former junior classes. This step of shortening the course in Latin has been agitated by the college papers for some time and it is probable that at some near date similar changes may be made, whereby the prescribed study of Greek also may be diminished...