Word: steps
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Professor Moore's lecture and exhibition of lantern slides at the Fogg Art Museum tonight some means is to be taken of reserving a portion of the seats in the lecture room until five minutes before the lecture begins for members of the University. This step has been found necessary on account of the number of outsiders who come early and leave no seats for the students...
According to the city laws, the University's remedy is to apply for redress to the board of relief; if it is refused, the case may be carried to the superior court and then to the supreme court. The Yale Corporation has not yet decided to take this step, but the action of the assessors will undoubtedly be opposed in some...
...week at Yale has been the annual Junior Promenade, which was held on Tuesday, the nineteenth. It was a great success and notable for the reduction of expenses necessarily incurred by those attending. This result has been aimed at for some time and much satisfaction is expressed over the step taken this year. Grenville Parker '98 was chairman of the committee and Frank H. Simmons floor manager...
...movement toward adopting an intercollegiate golf tournament, as one of the recognized athletic contests, between the large colleges is a most satisfactory step. The game has been growing popular so rapidly that it will undoubtedly occupy a prominent place among American sports in the near future, especially since the qualities required in a successful golf player are skill and steadiness rather than remarkable physical endowments...
...John Harvard Scholarships was a notable event. It was notable not only because of the large number of distinguished scholars and eminent literary and public men who attended this reception to a comparatively small number of undergraduates, but far more because it signalized the taking of a long step forward in the recognition and reward of scholarly merit at Harvard...