Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan advanced in the school paper to introduce a combination of the concentration and tutorial systems into the Choate School curriculum, while commendable because of the interest shown in individual scholarship, is a rather far step from the purpose of the secondary school. According to the outline proposed, the Choate News advocates a modification to some degree of the Harvard tutorial system, placing at the disposal of the high-ranking student the advantage of preparing special work aside from classroom courses under supervision of the masters. The project is similar to the Harvard system in that it allows sufficient opportunity...
...United States Lawn Tennis Association took a step in the right direction when it decided to find out the possibilities of holding an open tournament for amateurs and pros alike next fall. It is understood that the association intends to go ahead with the idea if enough players can be induced to enter, regardless of what the attitude of the international tennis body may be when it meets in Paris...
With the opening of an exhibition of educational films at Brattle Hall, Tuesday, the University Film Foundation will progress one step further in its policy of presenting educational films taken from a scientific point of view...
...taking the task of providing employment aid and advice to graduating seniors out of the hands of the Student Employment Office, the service has taken a forward step. In an organization already occupied to its fullest capacity with the problem of supplying part-time and summer employment to the self-supporting undergraduate there is little time and energy left to devote to seniors. The new service leaves the advisers with free hands...
This concert is the first held in accordance with the recent change in the policies of the Glee Club. It is offered in place of the usual Symphony Hall series. Officials of the Glee Club announced that this innovation has been inaugurated as a step toward the enlarging of the scope of the repertoire of the organization. Feeling that the more important choral works have been composed for mixed voices, the leaders believe that the accomplishment of the Glee Club will be more satisfying and natural, though the number of Symphony Hall appearances has been decreased. The club will present...