Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...will be suspended at the end of this year. The benefits arising from voluntary recitations have often enough been discussed; every one knows that, when used with the discretion which the average Senior is supposed to possess, the system has very great advantages; its abolition would be a retrograde step, and would be much lamented. It becomes Seniors, therefore, for the little time they are to stay here, to be more constant at recitations. They should remember that by their immoderate cutting they have brought into peril one of the greatest advances made in the College for many years...
...sorry to hear that the captain of at least one club is anxious to perpetuate the plan of making the six-oared crews inferior to the four-oared. This was done last fall from necessity, but we said then, and we say now, that it is a backward step, - not to be considered a moment by those who have any desire to see our boating interests improved. Men who have such a desire should devote themselves to devising means to raise the first crews of the clubs to eight-oars rather than to degrading them to fours. If nothing...
...their charge, and so entirely regardless of their feelings and wishes in a matter of such vital importance. The necessity of these means of escape cannot be too strongly urged, and in view of the recent terrible disasters in Brooklyn and San Francisco, it certainly seems that some decided step should be taken by the students of the College or their parents in the matter...
...difficulties under which the Senior class have been laboring are now definitely abandoned. The half the class dissatisfied with the principles on which the other half ran the meeting of the class now recognize, after painful experience, the fact that arguments are of no avail. The next step in the matter will be taken by those who support the officers elect, who will fill the vacant offices from their own ranks. The rest of the class - whether that be a majority or a minority is not now known - will then probably take some independent action...
...proof was needed, by the course pursued in the late Convention of the Association. Three colleges - Cornell, Columbia, and Princeton - were represented, and the most important action taken was a resolution to row hereafter in four-oared instead of six-oared shells. The fear that this backward step would be taken was one of our strongest reasons for leaving the Association, and now we see that our apprehension was no idle fancy. We shall have next summer three separate intercollegiate contests, and every college, except Harvard and Yale, will row in four-oared boats. At the time of our fall...