Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...examinations are started. The amount of work to be required is 28 hours a week. Twenty-four of these will be spent in classroom lectures and laboratory exercises, and the remaining four in signaling work. Professor E. L. Chafee at the Cruft Laboratory will consult with prospective applicants. The step toward the organization of this course was taken upon the request of Major-General Squire, of the U. S. A. Signal Corps...
...heart upon several matters. He has even discovered, much more generally than he had four years ago, a feeling of interest in questions of broad public moment. In subjects touching his personal future he has found certain issues of more vital concern than the mastery of the latest step in the fox-trot. It is easy to trace the sequence of cause and effect which has been at work here: The boys in our colleges have seen hundreds of their fellows go forth to an active share in the war. Most of them know that their own time for service...
...even if the War Department declined to recognize the school by automatically issuing commissions to its graduates, I think it would be all the better that they should go straight into the ranks for a period that would undoubtedly be short, as their competence would give them their step before long. It seems to me that the University could well afford to say to students who had taken such a course with a view to becoming officers in the army, that at any time after completing it they should be entitled, on taking one more year's specialized work...
...toward which they have drifted much too far, Under the new regime we may not turn out soon perfectly-drilled machines, but we shall turn out as physically fit man who, in addition, have a purer love for their chosen sport. And we shall have more of them. Each step from Professionalism toward real amateurism will bring increasing numbers of poorer players out for teams. These are the very men who need the exercise, who need this opportunity for physical development. Their presence on the fields will not detract from the pleasure or efficiency of the first-string...
...something more than mere proof of their superiority. All terrain captured heretofore has had comparatively local importance, but this new steady drive may surprise the most pessimistic of us as well as the Germans. Further progress on the same line is a check on the submarine campaign and a step toward victory...