Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...standing of the classes for the pennant is: '85, three first prizes; '87 one first prize; '86, one first and one second place; '84, (if Mr. Bangs is counted as that class) two first; L. S., one first prize. '87 also has gained one step towards...
...argument of his address President Eliot thus concluded and summed up: "Finally, I step beyond the strict limits of my subject to urge the enlargement of the circle of liberal arts, on the ground that the interests of the higher education and of the institutions which supply that education demand it. Liberal education is not safe and strong in a country in which the great majority of the men who belong to the intellectual professions are not liberally educated. Now, that is just the case in this country. The great majority of the men who are engaged in the practice...
...Monday were presented to the faculty. The action taken by the faculty is printed in another column. Though at first the entire undergraduate body was greatly disturbed and excited by the resolutions of the inter-collegiate conference, yet there was a strong impression that the faculty would reconsider the step they had taken if the state of feeling among the students could be set before them in the proper light. Such measures were taken, therefore, as seemed best fitted to fully express the sentiments of the undergraduates in regard to the proposed changes. Upon learning the strong current of opinion...
...Cicoro and a Demosthenes they will both be united against Macedon. We all stand together against that senseless cry which speaks of the great ancient languages as dead in any offensive sense of that word. On this great question of classical languages depend upon it we shall take no step backward...
...invited to deal with some point in which his special vocation touches the thought or the life of students of Theology. Thus, the corporation, the overseers, the Law School, and the Medical School and the various departments of the college, each says its word to the Divinity School. This step of the Divinity School is an example worth imitating. It is good for the teachers, because it leads them to discuss the larger relations of their special subjects; and it is good for the students, because they hear the best advice of a great variety of specialists addressed for once...