Word: steps
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York World of October 24, in speaking of the reasons which led Harvard to give up fall races, says: "Another explanation of this almost unprecedented step of abandoning boat-racing in the autumn is Harvard's feeling of confidence on the water." As an authority for this view of the situation the World quotes the Boston Sunday Times of October 9, in which what seems to us an almost boastful tone is assumed in discussing our rowing prospects for next year. We think that the writer in the Times misrepresents in reference to this question the College feeling, which...
...knows more of them than that he is a celebrated philosopher. The girl is pretty enough, but insignificant. There is no force in her, and beauty of the highest type cannot exist without force. But, speaking of them, I remember that they have not yet seen me; I must step in a moment, to countenance their arrival. Good-evening...
...will appear in its true character. At first you may not suppose that it has altered in any way, for it may lie perfectly motionless. That, however, is merely a designed veiling of a deadly purpose, - a trap to catch the unwary. You, too, are deceived by it. You step on one end fearlessly. The end upon which you stand at once submerges itself about three feet underneath the water, while the other raises itself aloft threateningly. Remembering your childish experience in see-saw, you make a rush up the log toward the middle. Arrived there you breathe a sigh...
...politics at home would become purer and more dignified, the cry for civil service reform would in a great measure cease, and we should no longer be disgraced abroad, as we have so often been, by men unfit to be our agents. Though Harvard cannot take the initiatory step in this direction, she can at least follow the good example which has been set her. By founding such a school as we have spoken of let her be among the first to try to regenerate and lend vigor and honor to our politics...
...suppliants not keeping step, and the graceful, swift-footed attendants...