Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...attained in it is set before the eye, then the interest is of itself awakened. By adding the invitation events to the programme of the meeting on Saturday, the Athletic Association not only contributed much toward the success and enjoyment of the meeting, but took a very wholesome step in the promotion of athletics at Harvard...
Yale has been exceedingly fortunate in its latest acquisition - that of Mr. E. G. Coy of Phillips Andover Academy, as head master for the new Yale preparatory school in Salisbury, Conn. The importance of this step is at once apparent when we consider that Mr. Coy accepted this position after having declined the mastership of Williston Seminary, as well as some of the smaller academies. Mr. Coy will take the school at its opening, and being subject to very little restriction, will be able fully to carry out his personal theories as to the system of instruction...
...requiring continuous residence at the University, but just how far this rule would be actually enforced was largely a matter of guess-work to the students. The consequence was that men were often called to account for action which they did not positively know to be punishable. The present step which the Administrative Board has taken sets matters on a much more satisfactory basis. By informing the students beforehand just what the regulation is, and just how far they mean it to hold good, they have raised the standard of morality connected with the whole question of college obedience...
...junior class at Princeton has decided to wear the cap and gown next year, hoping by this step to establish a permanent custom...
...heart in the world, and this is love. Any man that loves something outside of himself, be it beauty, truth, religion, God, gets just so much of real life, but he who lives for himself alone gets the husks. As an old Eastern poet says: "Heaven is but one step beyond yourself...