Word: steps
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...preparatory schools, an impetus will be the preparatory schools, an impetus will be given to the game in preparatory schools, which is the surest way to foster a new sport. A little energy in the management of the team will do much to make a success of this step, which is as yet little more then an experiment...
...more care from the parent. The next phase of sympathy is that for the tribe, which we reach in the ant. The ants in each hill cooperate in labor; but their sympathy does not extend to ants of other hills. The sympathy for the species is the next step in development. This is best seen among domestic animals in the pig of the southern forests, where a cry of distress from one of them calls hundreds of others to his assistance. The highest development of sympathy is seen in the monkey. Then comes the lower man. From them...
Having reached this step the study of altruism is outside the field of the naturalist. The lecture believed that the spirit of Christianity rests on these old altruistic motives; and that it also fosters them, towards fellow beings, and towards the Supreme Being...
...these two forces should accomplish their object by the capture and permanent possession of this important city the first step toward a great scheme would be accomplished. Then the loyal citizens of eastern Tennessee would be protected, and Kentucky, free from inroads, would be saved to the Union. Moreover, from Chattanooga railways led either north and east to Lynchburg and Richmond in Virginia, or southeasterly to Atlanta. By following either of these routes the Union generals hoped to break up the Confederacy at a single blow. After much delay Rosecrans moved forward and compelled Bragg who was blocking the road...
...adoption of the elective system marked the first step in the conversion of Harvard from a conventional American college into a university of originality of plan and broad scope. Ever since that system was adopted the energies of this institution have been largely devoted to an adjustment of the several parts of the old system to suit the changed conditions of the new. What is to be the next great change in this process of growth is somewhat doubtful. The entire relegation of the arguer part of the work of the freshman year to the preparatory schools is avowedly...