Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That Great Britain and France have given their sanction to this step is by this time certain. The attitude of the United States alone remains doubtful. No official statement has yet been issued by the State Department, but it is scarcely too much to say that our Government, if it does not actively oppose the measure, will at least refuse its assent. And this for very good reasons...
...baseball season at the University took a forward step yesterday when both University and Freshman teams lined up for the first time this season in two three-inning games. Each nine played its respective second team. In spite of the difficulties which the cage presents, both engagements were fast, and the batting ability which the majority of the men displayed was unusual for so early a date...
...Step into any lecture room toward the close of an hour and observe an occurrence which is not uncommon, but which is quite characteristic of the American student. The professor is completing his lecture. Immediately there arises a noise of shuffling feet, of closing note-books, and of clattering tablets as each student prepares to leave the hall. The closing words are a meaningless jumble lost in the general disorder. The students rush out; the professor resignedly gathers up his notes and joins the crowded mass at the door...
...stand taken by the University in respect to the advisability of entering a regular team at the annual track and field games, which will be held this year at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, May 31 and June 1, was clearly opposed to such a step. Yale and Princeton virtually coincided with the views held by the University, and, although they did not come to an actual decision, will probably send only individual entries to the meet...
...proved by the graduates of college corps now in the service. Exactly as the Plattsburg camps of 1915 and 1916 laid the foundation of the training of an enormous number of men and officers now in the service, so must the colleges today supply trained men to step in when the others are thinned out. We must, however, work as far as possible together, and not allow university ties to affect the training of the college man. The above plan has disadvantages which, upon investigation, may prove prohibitive, but it is offered as a suggestion with the belief that...