Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...doubt, that our nine receives the same treatment, and that every other nine is in the same position, when defeated on a field away from home. But is this any argument why this nuisance should not be done away with, or why Harvard should not take the first step in abolishing a proceeding that is without doubt a factor in the much debated ill-feeling in college base-ball...
Interest in the success of universities and university life in the West is growing. The formation of a university club at Butte, Iowa, will be regarded as another step by which the Eastern and Western civilization may be united more closely. We quote the following from the Butte Daily News...
...reflex action on the community in which they move and associate. In union is strength is true of intellectual effort as well as political or any other co-operation. The gentlemen who met yesterday afternoon are highly encouraged by the prospect before them, and feel certain that no step that has ever been taken by Butte will be of more benefit to the city than this. To have it known in the East that there is a university club of nearly half a hundred members from colleges all over Christendom will be a revelation to thousands, and make the city...
...addition of new courses in the English department at Harvard, promised for next year, is another step in the development of the college which will be warmly approved by people of liberal views in matters of education. In spite of the increased attention which is now being paid to the study of the English language and literature in colleges and other institutions of learning both in this country and in England, there is still a notable lack of interest in the subject exhibited in quarters where it ought not to exist. The reasons for this have often been discussed...
...song written for the occasion by Mr. Pepper, and after some very comic stage business exits. A second scene shows us the interior of a puritan drawing-room, inhabited by cats. Enter Dorothy and Pricilla who sing a nursery hymn very effectively, accompanying it with a very gracefully danced step. Suddenly two reservation Indians in all the paraphernalia of their lucrative profession burst in upon them and carry them off. Next Harvard and Dame Daffodill appear and discover that fact, and the scene changes to where the maidens are waiting instant death tied to a rickety stake. The braves vanish...