Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reading and tutorial work, and most vitally important of all a recognition of the room for improvement. In many respects the paragraph devoted to the constructive suggestions is the most enlightening part of the article. The Reading Period has its attendant evils, and a recognition of them is a step in the right direction...
...face of Dean Hanford's figures and the long recognized problem of the two factors--the real and the "gentleman" student--it may be safely supposed that the next step in education is logically the official recognition of the gap. This conclusion is based upon the hypothesis that every man who takes his studies seriously and spends the requisite amount of time on them should be capable of attaining at least a high C average. If this statement sounds too startling in view of the number of men on probation and those who maintain a precarious low C level...
...time when the rotating policy was decided upon, Harvard may be said to have had five traditional foes--Yale, Princeton, Brown, Dartmouth, and Holy Cross. The rotating policy has already caused two subtractions from this list. Other honored rivals may also be asked to step aside for a year or two. Or Harvard's rivals themselves may ask to be excused from playing under conditions which they have some cause to consider unstable...
...shoulder that makes the wheel turn round. His is usually the conciliation which finds a basis for agreement. He is an active man, tireless, industrious, and devoted to the routine of his office--a man still young at sixty-seven, stockily built, sturdy, with more spring to his step than most men half his age, and reported by one of the most competent newspaper men in Washington to be the best poker player in either House of Congress. He is everybody's friend. His colleagues call him Charlie. His constituents swear by him as they would swear by a trusted...
...Cocteau took the Greek, made a text of it for Stravinsky, gave it to Monsieur J. Danielou who put it into Latin. In Latin, then, scorning all theatrical device, Stravinsky presented his (Edipus. He had a speaker (in Boston last week it was Paul Leyssac), to tell the story step by step. He had specific soloists-Charles Hackett for (Edipus, Margaret Matzenauer for Jocastá, Fraser Gange for Tiresias-and the Harvard Glee Club for his chorus. But they wore only conventional concert dress. They were forbidden to do any business, or to create any illusion. Illusion...