Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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During the past few weeks, the Corporation has taken a step which should not rest without protest. Permission was asked that Mrs. Pankhurst, the English suffragist, be allowed the use of a Harvard building in which to deliver an address. A week before, when the Corporation had been petitioned for the use of a hall in which to hold a series of lectures on "The Progressive Movement", the hall was granted only on condition that the public be excluded. The ground taken was that a University building is not the proper place for public political agitation; but that, if only...
...first respect almost all state clubs are active, in the second a few, and in the third almost none. If each state club made it a point to secure one representative man each year to lecture under its auspices at Harvard, a great step would be taken toward bringing the University into touch with ideas from every section of the country, and also toward bringing all sections of the country better to know and understand what Harvard stands...
...Another step toward increasing the facilities for public speaking is found in the oral work which is being added to the regular written class-work in English A this year. But perhaps the most interesting development is that of the Speakers' Club...
Little by little the international peace movement is shifting from the realm of theory to the world of actual facts. The first definite steps were taken in its behalf at the Hague Conferences in 1899 and 1907. A tribunal was established to decide such international differences as did not touch the national honor or vital interests of the parties. The Declaration of London, not yet accepted, embodies a set of rules by which such international disputes shall be decided. The latest step in the same direction was taken last spring when the Taft administration opened negotiations for the peace treaties...
Italy had no moral right to step across to Africa, as Tripoli had given her no cause for war. But she is politically justified, for she needs room. It is a case of now or never, for France might step in from Tunis and Algeria at any time, were she not occupied elsewhere. Italy, however, is going to encounter difficulties. The city of Tripoli is taken, but not the country. Water is scarce even in the city, camels are absolutely necessary for transportation, and food is in the absolute control of the Turkish rulers of the land...