Word: steps
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...cents and figures are after all not the essential thing. If there was more attention to college duties on those two Saturdays than in the previous years and less distraction due to the intercollegiate contests, we have taken a step in advance. If a brief statement of the Student Council, setting forth the situation in concrete form, is instrumental in reducing the number of absences it has justified its position by just so much, both to the students and to the governing boards. Even in this regard, what does it matter in the long run whether or not this...
...very little knowledge of just what was being acclaimed. The only external evidence of some systems has been a copious amount of notes on the work of the year, discussing each situation as it arose and giving a detailed account in writing of just what was done in every step of the work, all this information to be handed down to future years for their instruction and edification. Other systems have apparently neglected this side entirely and have proceeded on entirely different lines, keeping no such account of the doings, but relying on the particular shining genius...
...chairman of the Official Classification Committee of New York, will give a lecture on "Classification in Railroad Rates" in Harvard 1 today, at 8 o'clock. Mr. Ives has been in the railroad business for over 20 years. He started with an unimportant position and has worked his way, step by step, into one of importance...
...from their complete name. The Training School from which they come devotes its energies to training men to fill positions in Y. M. C. A. work throughout the country. Much attention is paid to physical culture and gymnastic work of all kinds, and many of the students on graduation step into positions as athletic instructors in the Association's houses. The results of such a general all-around athletic training were marked last year, particularly in developing the new game of forward passes, onside kicks, and open formations to a high degree of efficiency. Such was the case last year...
...cases of sudden change of rule, the people must go through a period of tutelage, for they cannot be expected to be transformed from a state of absolute subjection to entire self-government at a single step. We try to develop the individual unit, to educate and civilize the people according to western ideas of civilization, and in the end to leave them absolutely self-governing. What the Philippine Islands need, is not new laws, not financial assistance, not a change of policy, but merely the removal of all tariffs. Up to the present time all administration has been along...