Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...School of Education has taken rather a bold step in raising the requirements for its degrees. It has made the doctorate more difficult to attain, and more a measure of capacity for important research. It has made a still greater change by requiring for the master's degree two years of work instead of one. This it is hoped will in time appeal to young men and women who have just graduated from college and intend to make teaching or school administration their career. The changes were expected to cause a considerable reduction of the number of students...
...gift of $100,000 from a graduate known only as "Alumnus Aquaticus" is the first definite step toward an immediate start on the construction of a swimming pool primarily for undergraduates, it was announced yesterday by the H. A. A. Tentative plans call for the erection of a large indoor athletic plant with full equipment on land available between Winthrop, Holyoke, and Dunster Streets, and await additional funds for their execution...
Already more than the first step has been taken; the great have been made a little less inspiring, and humanity at large has, in some instances at least, been able to beam with the tingling glow of self-esteem and congratulate itself that after all Plato and Aristotle, Napoleon and Bismarck are governed by the same laws, the same loves and hates...
...library are being read, and a knowledge of their contents is to be required for the examinations. There are of course no lectures. Miss Ada Comstock, head of Radcliffe, said in an article appearing in the college daily that if this experiment succeeds "it will be a step in the direction of making education more of an independent, personal adventure and less of a submission to a prescribed routine." This is a step we should all be glad to take, for we often find ourselves impeded by apparently unreasonable rules, barassed by petty requirements. Such freedom as this reading period...
Reasons are not wanting for the new step at the Naval Academy. It is pointed out that the midshipmen's social standing after graduation hinges upon their ability to distinguish between a putter and a mashie and that since they will associate with groups who indulge in the divertissement they must be among the initiated. Furthermore, those who have their welfare at heart emphasize the fact that the Navy develops men, not wallflowers, another reason why its protegees must know their golf. Indeed, it appears as though superdreadnoughts are going to be deserted for country clubs and the domain...