Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interfere. It the members of the Association think it best to start the petition we shall back them up, and so will the whole college. If something is to be done, it must be done at once, and we look to the Base-Ball Association to take the first step...
Columbia College has taken another step forward, and this time it is to allow the admission of women to its higher courses...
...this action, Columbia is the first of the large colleges to take the step of giving to women the same privileges as are extended to men. Whether this progressive movement will call forth corresponding action from her sister universities remains to be seen. For some time the smaller colleges-Colby, Wesleyan and others-have admitted women as candidates for degrees, but until the plan is adopted by the more prominent institutions of learning the success of this revolutionary attempt cannot be assured...
...Harvard is concerned, it is unlikely that any such step will be taken, as the Annex, Wellesley and Boston University are quite capable of satisfying the intellectual cravings of the young women of Massachusetts...
...perfectly just and natural that the college graduate should receive the degree of A. M. after pursuing a little further the studies which have occupied him during his college course. We all hope to receive the degree of Bachelor of Arts some day, and it is but a natural step from that to the degree of Master of Arts. There is no incongruity in it either...