Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Times greets the step as reasonable in every respect. Its comment follows in part...
...York Herald Tribune considers the use to which the increased revenue will be put as "justification for the step." It goes on to say: "The greater the number of undergraduates competing in some form of athletic endeavor the better it will be for the college and for amateur sport in general. What to some may seem an intensification of the spirit of commercialism may possibly bring quite different results...
...Another step in the gradual process of increasing the importance played by the tutorial system in the University scholastic system was taken recently with the appointment to assistant professorships of 13 instructors and students, most of whose work has been in tutoring. Of the newly appointed assistant professors four have never taught in the University before...
...Athletic Committee can only be applauded for its appreciation of the University's needs and its choice of means to meet them. This step may be a force in influencing the University administration to adopt an equally sane attitude toward athletics for all. The recent appointment of Mr. Bingham as Director of Athletics with a seat on the Faculty has given grounds for the hope that this attitude is already taking shape, that the day will come when athletics will be regarded as a department of the University on the same footing as the departments of History, Philosophy, and Fine...
...introduction. Captain Noel declared: "Our expedition carried the attempt to reach the top of the world one step farther. The next time it will be done. We have proved one thing. It was never known before that human beings could, with time, acclimatize themselves to high altitudes. We accomplished this thing. Mallary did not die in vain. He showed that the heretofore unconquerable mountain can be conquered. Tonight I shall attempt to show you the romantic fascination and the semi-religious spirit that...