Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...formation of the Phillips Brooks House Association, there has been a gradual but noticeable change in the religious atmosphere at Harvard, a change due directly to the efforts of the Association, founded in memory of a man who stood for the best there is in life, Phillips Brooks. The step in life you Freshmen are now taking, he said, is from boyhood into manhood. The dividing line between the two is more difficult to determine for a man entering a college, than for him who enters directly into the world's work. The former continues in a slightly altered path...
Nevertheless the step must be taken, unavoidably so, by each one entering upon college life, and greater and more manly responsibilities assumed. There are chiefly four kinds of responsibilities that should weigh upon each student; first his responsibility and duty to those by whom he is permitted and enabled to attend college, secondly the responsibility that he owes in cherishing the fair fame of his university, thirdly the duty he owes himself in fitting himself to be a helpful and loyal citizen, and fourthly the duty that each one owes to an Almighty Power above. College days are happy...
...upon receiving the opportunity of freedom, as it may be called, they carried its privileges to a great excess. Now it is the endeavor of the government to get the peasant back to his original state, and let him out of his confinement by gradual stages, but the step which has been taken cannot now be retracted; the peasants will never relinquish the small claims to freedom which they have obtained...
Running hop, step, and jump--S. C. Lawrence '10, C. C. Little '10, R. P. Pope '10, B. T. Stephenson...
...inconvenience of other students. Unless these is immediate improvement in this respect, I shall be obliged to discontinue altogether the practice of allowing books to be taken out for overnight use, since annoyance to readers the next day exceeds the accommodation to borrowers the night before. Before taking this step, however, I desire to ask the help of all users of the Reading Room toward making the operation of the present method successful. WILLIAM C. LANE, Librarian...