Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...informal" system as originally practised by Yale, Harvard and Princeton, though well meant, has been widely censured as not furnishing the necessary incentive for athletics. For then University to "about-face" now, acknowledge that she was wrong and begin anew, will be no disgrace. It is the only logical step open...
...brought some order out of the chaos of the railroads. In addition, the needs of the small consumer for fuel will have vanished with the warmer weather. With the return of more normal conditions the practicability of holding the Junior Dance will be assured. It was, therefore, a wise step on the part of the committee to postpone rather than cancel the arrangements they had planned, for the value of one such social function to break through the monotony of the College year is not to be denied...
...with great consternation your leading editorial on "Eight O'clock Nine O'clock." That the Student Council should take upon itself the regulation of College hours and the College fuel conservation program, and that the editorial chairman of your good paper should support so vivaciously and perhaps cocksure this step, is, I believe, an example of high-handed interference in the privileges and duties of certain College officials by immature undergraduates...
...Federal House of Representatives has passed the Susan B. Anthony Bill, the first step towards the constitutional amendment enfranchising the women of the nation. During the past five years the suffragists have made a gallant fight for political equality. Some aspects of that fight have been condemned. Others have been praised. The net result was the passage by the lower branch of the National Legislature of the desired bill...
...instituted at the beginning of the year by a committee composed of members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The purpose of this action was to provide a weekly talk for the University by a speaker acquainted with some phase of the war. The step was prompted by the prevailing it orange as to the events which are in progress in Europe and the obvious necessity for men, particularly those in the R. O. T. C., to become informed of the conditions among the armies on the Western Front...