Word: steps
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...editorial, not at lengthy intervals of a a week each, but every other day. The editors whose enterprise has brought about this change, and the college which is to receive the benefit of it are to be congratulated upon this new departure. A tri-weekly is a long step towards a daily paper, and at Princeton, cannot but be for the best interest of the college; for there the Nassau Literary Magazine affords a refuge in which the literary men of the college can find a convenient hiding place for their work...
...meanwhile a regular quicksand. The end of the walk opposite Holyoke St. is still worse; the stones are sunken and uneven. and on the rainy days that are so common in Cambridge, one is obliged either to keep on the flagging, and go ankle deep in water, or step off the path and flounder ankle deep in mud. Now the expenditure of ten dollars would right this state of things: a small tile pipe would remedy the first defect, and a few hours labor straightening the stones would remedy the second. Let us hope that the authorities...
During the two or three years before his entrance to college, it is true, the boy feels some dim forebodings of trouble ahead; but a decisive step to meet it is seldom taken. Human nature is weak, and the issue is generally avoided, while the anxious son consoles himself with the thought that years may bring wisdom to the dear parents...
Professor Sumner of Yale, says as follows of the change for admission to Harvard:- "I have examined it with great care and I think it an admirable scheme. It is judicious, and marks an important step in the improvement of university education. Every man can suit himself as to his course of studies. The greatest change is in the possibility of avoiding Latin and Greek through the combinations which have been provided for. I see Mr. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., is pressing a movement to substitute English for Latin as the official language of the college. This fact is worthy...
...rules growing out of the report decided on by the preliminary conference, will afford a proper medium whereby a scheme of government of student interests, that will mean something, can be proposed, discussed, and pushed forward. Viewed in this light, the work of the temporary conference is a short step in the right direction Whether this step is the first of a series, depends greatly on the students. The way to gain power, is to show ourselves capable of exercising it. A more intimate out-of-class acquaintance between professor and student, and a greater familiarity on the part...