Word: steps
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...part of the losers. Base-ball is frequently as much a game of chance as of skill. Some change will have to be made before long in the method of play, and it will probably be inaugurated by the colleges as the leaders in amateur athletics. The first step toward such a change will be to dipitcher. The new rule adopted by the minish the undue importance of the National : League would have precisely the opposite effect. True, the practice thus sanctioned has been common for the past two or three years, though forbidden by the rules; but that...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Last year some gentlemen connected with the senior class canvassed the college to obtain subscriptions for a Christmas present to Billy the postman. This year I believe no such step has been taken, and unless the members of the college individually remember him, there is danger that he will not receive the substantial recognition that his faithfulness and courtesy entitle him to. His position, as we all know, is a laborious one, and attended with many unpleasant features. Let us all do what we can to reward this by giving him some little reminder of our appreciation...
Thus it will be seen that absolutely nothing has been done, which warrants the statement that Harvard intends withdrawing from the league, beyond opening a discussion as to the advisability of such a step...
Professor Jowett, Master of Balliol College, and better known to the American public through his fascinating translations of Plato and Thucydides, has been appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford. This fact gains interest as marking another step towards freedom of thought in the great centre of British conservatism. Counted by years it is not long since Mr. Jowett, having been excluded from the university pulpit, was threatened with prosecution for heresy, and denied his legitimate salary of professor of Greek. Now, without any change of opinion on his part, he has been appointed to the highest active office...
...cast-off garments and other articles, which are abandoned by their owners and in their absence usually appropriated by the goodies, will thus be secured. The contract for the year's washing also, it will be seen, will by this time have been entered into. Thus, whoever may step into the places of the strikers, will be deprived of these perquisites and will be unlikely to be content simply with the wages offered for the work. These particulars we can vouch for. There is only one remedy : Omit the usual presents, leave no articles loose in your rooms when...