Word: steps
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Weld senior crew, which won the race in the Metropolitan Regatta last Thursday, is going to philadelphia to row in the National Regatta of Amateur Oarsmen, to be held in that city on August 14. This step has been decided upon as a result of the interest taken in the crew by a number of graduates, among them Mr. Peabody, Mr. Weld, and Mr. Tudor, who witnessed the race...
...expenses of the Association for the year have been $200. Besides this, $500 has been raised to pay for the services of the general secretary, who is to go into office next fall. This is a decided step forward, as a secretary has not been employed for several years, but during the past two years the work has become so wide and scattered that such a man is needed. G. Gleason '97, who is to fill the position, has had experience in the work, and, under his management, much progress is expected...
...point, however, deserves particular commendation. This is the evident effort to confine punning, pure and simple, to the "By the Way" column, so long avowedly devoted to the pursuit of that noble art. There is still room for improvement in the same line, but it is a long step in advance to purge the editorial page of such self-confessed twaddle as has at times appeared there, and to substitute for it the sound opinions on events of the day which appear in the present number...
...reliance is a good quality until it leads to carelessness. If the ability of the crew to learn is only as great as that of Mr. Lehmann to teach and if the rest of us are not afflicted with that absolute, serene confidence which has sometimes existed, a long step will have been taken in the right direction...
...have heard in Sanders Theatre, three have been seriously impaired by such disagreement. The most painful reflection in regard to the debate last Friday is that Harvard's admirable argument against bimetallism went all for nothing because of a squabble over the meaning of the subject. The first step is to frame subjects with the greatest possible brevity and celarness. Then it might be feasible for both sides to confer, by letter or by representatives, as to the full meaning of the question. Again, it might be well to appoint some impartial person an arbiter on definition, to whom...