Word: steps
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ruins showing the position of the pyramids upon which stand the temples and other buildings, portions of which are covered with sculptures. Extending to the top of one of these pyramids is a stairway about forty feet wide and one hundred feet high. The front of each step of this stairway is elaborately carved with hieroglyphs and here and there a human figure...
...more likely to be enforced than now? No. We have now an agreement to abide by decisions in particular cases. Under their system we would have a vague agreement to abide by decisions at some future time which statesmen would find easy to lay aside when they desired. Your step is not only unnecessary, it is unsafe...
...various buildings they have been left entirely in the dark. In fact the history has been all too little known by the students themselves. The tablets which are to be erected will effectually furnish the desired information. The Memorial Society is to be thanked and congratulated for the step it has taken...
...away with this source of revenue, and it would be a great relief to the class crews. The latter are really a great benefit to the 'Varsity in developing material. It is to the interest of the 'Varsity to make matters as easy for them as possible. The first step in this direction should be to abolish the entrance fee to the class races and the charge for the use of the boat house...
...good deal of influence has of late been brought to bear by certain New England schoolmasters upon the committee on English composition of the Board of Overseers to lower the entrance requirements in English. Such a step would be retrogressive. Under the present conditions the quality of the English used in examination papers is appallingly bad. To lower the entrance requirements in English would in no way remedy this evil. Harvard College is certainly not the place to teach men to spell properly and to write good grammar. That at least should be done by the preparatory schools. The committee...