Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lawyers think it advisable to do so. And the reason in this case is that it is desirable to have the interests of the many graduates who are not residents of Massachusetts represented in so important a body as the Board of Overseers. It is undesirable to take a step which shall in any way tend to diminish the number of students at Harvard, to impair the interest which graduates feel in the University, or to increase the all too prevalent suspicion that the authorities of the University desire to maintain a close corporation. If the statutes of the Board...
...likely to be until the whole system of American instruction is reformed, and the university is no longer compelled to perform part of the functions of the preparatory schools; but much required work has been abolished, and the new method of examining candidates or admission is an important step in the right direction. The new system of conferring degrees, though somewhat elaborate, tends to encourage sound scholarship. Many valuable additions have been made to the elective courses; the extension of the graduate courses is a broadening move; and the establishment of a chair of the Chinese language and literature, with...
...half-hour, as if Tom were some mighty heathen god. It must be pleasant, too, when the indefatigable athlete above you drops his Indian clubs with a yell that suggests the origin of the name applied to those useful articles, and begins to practise the last new step. I have heard that in some of the old buildings men frequently have to bring up coal and water from the lower regions, and I know perfectly well that most of the students are under the tyranny of Goodies, Pocos, and Janitors. It may not be generally known that a volume...
...best lies. But I have society - plenty of it - when I feel sociable. I am sorry to say that most of the time I am as frigid as a frozen walrus; when, however, my nature craves a more genial atmosphere, all I have to do is to step downstairs, for there are always to be found Faith, Hope, and Charity, - my landlady's daughters. I shall not describe their beauty, for you would all come rushing down here. It will be enough to say that my friend Mr. Lafarge, the artist, surreptitiously introduced them into his painting of Apollo...