Word: steps
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college, speak for their fellow graduates, and contend that Cowan is one of the fairest players who ever kicked a ball. He is undoubtedly the strongest man of the team, and his presence and playing always inspire the other players with vim and courage. When he was ordered to step aside and make room for another the Princeton boys lost courage and could not play with the usual skill and confidence. Cowan was ruled out for "foul tackling," and it is insisted he was not guilty of such action. Had he been allowed to remain in the game...
...Orchards are being planted, farm products marketed and numerous other evidences of thrift show the progress they are making. English only is the language used in the schools, thus the people have a community of feeling and thought, and the common use of the English tongue is the first step in their further education and advancement. The orders issued in regard to this do not as yet affect the preaching of the gospel in the churches, nor in any way hamper the missionaries in their efforts to give the tribes a knowledge of the Christian religion. But it is insisted...
...fall races will be rowed today at noon in front of the boat house. Three crews of upper class men and four crews of freshmen will row. Upper classmen will be at boat house ready to step into their barges at 12 o'clock sharp, the freshment the same...
...religion in the Scotch Universities. Several years ago it would have been impossible to hold a religious meeting at Edinburgh University. Now they have services and meetings, especially in the hospitals, where the medical students often go and hold short services with the patients. This was a great step, but more was required. Many of the students were going down hill, and efforts were made to save them. There was formed a Medical Students Christian Association. A great cricketer named Studd, and a stroke of the Cambridge crew named Smith wished to go to China as missionaries. An opportunity...
...surely seems as if this was a step in the right direction, entirely in harmony with the progressive reputation of our university, and a step eminently advantageous to those intent on the medical profession...