Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting yesterday of the Inter-Collegiate Lacrosse Association marks an important step in the history of lacrosse in the United States, and indicates that lacrosse has at last secured a firm foothold among other legitimate collegiate sports. With flourishing teams at Princeton, Yale and Harvard, the association may reasonably hope to see a rapid spread of the game to other colleges. The adoption of a modified list of playing rules by the convention was a move of great importance for the future of the game. These, if published, will afford all an opportunity to acquire acquaintance with the theory...
...formation of a second nine, as announced on our first page, is an excellent step, and the plan will no doubt prove successful if the members of the nine will only go to work in a business-like way. The second nine will be better suited to the immediate purposes of the university nine than would separate nines from each of the classes. The university will in this way get better practice, and men will be prepared from work in the second nine to step directly into vacant places in the university next year. Still there are certain advantages...
...difficult to appreciate to what a great extent the past year's success has been due to the painstaking and thorough management of the present incumbent. Therefore it is with considerable concern that we learn that the present superintendent contemplates giving up the office. His reasons for this step are entirely personal. As so much of the success of the society has been due to the confidence its members felt in their manager, his resignation at this time would be a severe blow. Although it is possible that another man might give satisfaction, still he would be obliged to learn...
This is but another step towards the entire abandonment of the freshman required work of which we spoke a few days since. It has always seemed very unjust to many that the freshman year, which is entirely taken up with required work, a great deal of which may be distasteful and onerous to most men, should count so much more than any other subsequent year. As a result a man who received a low mark for his freshman year's work felt no great inclination to study harder afterwards in the hope of bettering his degree, as he felt himself...
...notified that Yale is perfectly willing to discuss any points of difference which may arise in regard to the coming race, but that it seems unnecessary to decide these questions before it has been decided to row this race, and that they are, therefore, unwilling to take any such step as Harvard requests until their challenge has been answered...