Word: steps
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Olympic Games at Athens, left yesterday afternoon for New York. They will sail today on the steamer Fulda. Two of the five men who compose the team are E.H. Clark '96 who will enter in the shot and hammer events, the high and broad jumps, and the hop-step-and-jump, and W. W. Hoyt '98, who will compete in the pole vault...
...does seem astonishing that in spite of all the expostulations on the part of the students in this University that have been made for several years past, no radical step has yet been taken by the authorities to better the condition of the College Yard during the winter and spring months. After a thaw like the present the Yard is little better than a marsh, and all the preparation that has been made for such a time has been the laying of a few narrow board walks along the unimportant paths. If it is indeed impracticable to have the Yard...
...second speaker for Harvard was J. P. Warren. After answering the preceding Harvard speaker he showed that all our experience points to the separation of the issue and revenue departments of the treasury, as the necessary step to make the legal tender system as successful as it was between 1879 and 1890. He asserted that this change would assimilate the convertible legal tenders completely to the position of specie, as illustrated in the matters of redundancy and stringency, elasticity and the rate of discount...
...last speech of the evening was Dobyn's summary. He said that the retirement of all the greenbacks was too sweeping a step. The present fiscal situation is perilous. But the danger, instead of being due to the principle of floating notes on a gold basis, comes from outside causes like the silver movement, which influence the ignorant public...
...them. Their decision was unanimous and is practically unreserved. Every one who goes under leave of absence must have all his work completed and his examinations satisfactorily passed before the date of sailing-Saturday, June 6. At the mass meeting of the university held last evening the final step towards entering the Yale crew was taken by ratifying by a practically unanimous vote the plans which the Navy management had arranged, and Yale's entry in the Henley Royal Regatta will be forwarded shortly. There has been no reduction in the number of candidates for the university crew...