Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the recent action of the University in granting Seniors greater freedom in course attendance marks a significant step forward in American university education is the practically unanimous opinion of other Eastern colleges. Their opinions, expressed in the editorial columns of the college newspapers, have almost without exception agreed with the sentiment of critics in metropolitan papers...
...step is greeted at Columbia as being similar to but more worthwhile than other ventures which have brought the University a certain publicity since last fall. Parts of the Columbia Spectator comment follow...
...afternoon Mrs. Coolidge received Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, wife of the Speaker of the House, and her step-mother in the oval room on the second floor of the White House. After a half hour's chat, Mrs. Longworth's step-mother was shown over the building, and shook hands with several of the older employes. It was the first time that Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. had been in the White House since she left it one March morning...
...establishment of the office of Director of Athletics, carrying with it the dignity of membership to the Faculty, is a progressive step which should prove epochal. Its significance can be limited only by the calibre of the man appointed to the position. The Corporation has formally recognized athletics to be an integral part of education. Hitherto athletics and academic pursuits have existed side by side as things apart, separate, distinct, rather than as two phases of the same thing,--the development of the complete man. With the incorporation of the one in the other, the University gives noteworthy recognition...
Harvard has moved a step farther away from the theory that a man may become educated merely through passive exposure to education. The university has always avoided the rigid requirements set in the past by American colleges upon regular classroom attendance, but now a still larger measure of freedom is to be granted in Cambridge in this respect. Hereafter, not only honors men but all seniors in good standing may make even more liberal use of their own discretion in determining how many lectures or recitations they will attend, without being subjected to any disciplinary penalty unless they make gross...