Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...makes the plan unnecessary, be given a general examination toward the close of their Senior year and shall be required to display at this examination a reasonable proficiency in some general field of college work. This is a new idea in American education, but it probably represents an important step in the right direction. Boston Herald...
...practice of artillery the University offers a carefully selected field of study upon which men may draw for their necessary units allied to the military work. In permitting the training to replace the usual requirements for distribution throughout the four years of college, the Faculty has taken a radical step in furthering the interests of military work at Harvard. Men may gain experience and knowledge in the duties of an artillery officer that may some day, in spite of all the efforts of nations to the contrary, be of the utmost value in a crisis such as that of April...
...changes, but it would seem that discussions of proposed reforms in which the student body is adequately represented would be very profitable. They would add another point of view: that of the younger generation; a point of view which, while less stable, is valuable because of its vigor. A step in the right direction has been taken. The Student Council has appointed a committee to present to the Faculty suggestions for the elucidation of the system of concentration and distribution. But this is not enough. The student body as a whole should become conscious of the possibility of change, should...
...Another step in connection with the plan of increasing students' interest in athletics is the formation of an association of all undergraduates who are or have been members Yale teams. It is proposed to bring together the past and present athletes in a well-furnished club which will include every training table of the university, and provide a center for athletic activity...
...vital significance of this step toward the solution of the labor problem, which is undoubtedly one of the biggest of the twentieth century, must be plain even to the dullest. Today organized labor is in a very trying position; it must, on the one hand, retain the support of the laboring man in its moderate measures as against the violence of Bolshevism, and upon the other, it must see that those moderate measures are put through. English labor men have for many years received such educations with the result that they are diplomats as contrasted with the fighting type...