Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...having to court a decision, the Harvard-Carleton speakers in Paine Hall could afford to step down from the rostrum of oratory and let the argument proceed in a series of quick rebuttals. The question was "Resolved, That the jury system should be abolished," and Johnson, of Carleton, introducing the affirmative case, claimed that the jury is a static part of a dynamic society. A. L. Raffa ocC reported that it is based upon the common man and is essential to democracy: at which Rowe replied that "the ordinary, common man is common enough" and so unfit to judge questions...
...would much prefer to listen to the roar of an aeroplane engine than to the drone of a saxophone. And as for partners--well, she'd "rather step out to a jig with an aviator than with a Harvard man." In fact, the University boys who attend such affairs amuse her. She would choose the company of pilots and mechanics...
...University for a number of years. Before Soldier's Field was used to such an extent as today and before the Freshman dormitories were built, this region was one of the most unattractive in Cambridge. The destruction of these houses, both of cheap construction, marks one more step in the University's attempt in recent years to clean up the district, since the expansion of the College in that direction...
...most part stultified by the stipulation of the law whereby Roumanians (Hungarians and former Hungarian citizens) who have "forgotten" their mother tongue must send their children to Roumanian schools. And the same situation obtains in Czeckoslovakia and Jugoslavia. It means that the Hungarian schools in these three countries step by step cease to exist, and all Hungarians are compelled to attend the national schools of the respective successor states. The minority treaty concluded, for instance, between the Allied and Associated Powers and Roumania on December 9th, 1919, declared that the racial linguistic and religious minorities are entitled to maintain schools...
...years at Harvard a tendency to reduce course requirements and to place academic responsibility upon the student without demanding too frequent accounts of his stewardship. But in the midst of this movement there still remain a few courses which, in their irritating insistence upon periodical reckonings, are out of step with the times. Such a one, for example, is History 12. Here quizzes of the type given Freshman sections in elementary courses follow one another at fortnightly intervals; when there is no quiz, there is a short paper to be written, or a map to be handed in. The course...