Word: steps
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Freshman organization is, without considering its details, a plan to prevent this waste, and as such we wish to commend it heartily. The personal application to all men who can possibly be of any use is a step in the right direction. Even if they can not become point winners now, some will do so in the course of time, and at all events the labor is sure to bear fruit sooner or later, provided only that it is consistently carried...
...name of their post office should be changed to Cambridge, instead of Cambridgeport as it now is, an effort is now being made by the same interests to solve the difficulty by establishing a single central office to take the place of the two now in existence. Such a step would of course unite the two districts under the municipal name, Cambridge...
...definite plan has been selected, and the postmaster of Boston, upon his return from Washington today, will hold a conference on the subject and possibly take some step in the matter. Whatever plan, however, may be selected, will involve the removal of all delivery business from Harvard Square to a considerable distance. A sub-station for the sale of stamps and for money-order and registered letter business may be substituted, but all mail will come from the new station...
Some practical results of this step will be, that on Sundays mail must be called for at a distance, or not at all, that those who are not at home when registered and special delivery letters are brought by messengers, must go to a greater distance to obtain them, and finally that the delivery of all mails will be to a certain extent retarded unless an extra appropriation is provided for carriers' car fare...
Another gratifying circumstance in this connection is the doing away with summer practice and the putting off of all hard work until the beginning of the college year. This step makes football more of a sport and less of a business for the men and is especially desirable, since it is doubtful whether any real benefit was ever derived from summer practice. It also speaks well for the harmony of opinion which exists between the football management and the athletic committee and for the system of undergraduate representation in that body...