Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plan as applied to undergraduates in general has its drawbacks. If undergraduate "human nature" were perfect, or if all the distractions,--subtle and otherwise,--which lead to procrastination and alas! too often to the professional tutor, could be swept away, then the "conference programme" would undoubtedly be a long step in advance toward thorough scholarship. As it is now, however, the proposed plan is directly opposed to the policy of more frequent tests, urged by the Student Council, as necessary to bring about regular and consistent work by undergraduates. The Columbia scheme may work admirably in the case...
...yesterday announced the make-up of the American team which will compete in the Olympic games in Stockholm this summer. Two Harvard men were among those chosen, Charles E. Brickley '15, of Everett, and Barton J. Haggard 1G., of Des Moines, Ia.; the former will compete in the hop, step and jump, and the latter has been chosen as a supplementary man in the pole-vault. Brickley prepared at Exeter, where he took a prominent part in track athletics, as well as playing football and baseball. Haggard graduated from Drake University, Iowa, in 1908 and is at present a graduate...
...commentators scrupulously overlook the glaring fact that undergraduates from public schools are intellectually a picked lot, and that undergraduates from private schools have been subject to no selective process whatever? A small proportion of grammar school boys go on to high school. A majority of those who take this step are better equipped intellectually than those who do not. Again, among high school graduates, only a fraction (large or small) go on to college. Here too the little band that progresses includes the intellectually foremost. The result is that those high school graduates who get John Harvard or Harvard College...
...step, Rum Tum Tiddle...
...step, I Want to Be in Dixie...