Word: steps
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...appointment of Dr. Christian as Dean of the Medical School marks another important step in the transition from old to new in that department of the University. A medical school perhaps more than any other educational institution needs to keep abreast of the times. With its unsurpassed equipment in the hands of the present dean, whose age places him with the younger generation of doctors, unhampered by traditions of an older teaching, the Medical School should be able to maintain a place in the front rank of modern medical science and develop to the utmost its splendid endowment...
Glorified celestial existence is the final goal of most religions. In Northern Buddhism this is not the goal but an intermediate step in normal evolution between the human and the infinite consciousness...
...dipping a wrinkled thumb into the situation which at the best has been a hodge-podge mess of pottage, better to stand aside in dignified silence and watch. Then if football or any other sport does not by itself earn the justification of its independent existence, by all means step in and instantly abolish. Don't hang another millstone around its neck and say, "Linger on." That is if winning or losing makes any difference. W. PETDO
...changes and additions in the basement of Gore Hall have just been completed, the last important step in the work of improvement to the Library which has been in progress since November...
...could well be. Confronted on the one side by two Faculty recommendations "to curtail largely the number of intercollegiate contests," and on the other by an undergraduate sentiment violently opposed to such an action, the Committee has felt called upon to act, and has therefore taken the first step in yielding to the stronger of the two opinions. But, if there is to be a concession it is apparently coming in a modified form, and not exactly as we expected...