Word: steps
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Plans for the dance are progressing rapidly. A new one-step, entitled "The Junior Promenade," has been written by one of the members of the class especially for this dance...
...prosecution of courses. The new elective system has been followed by a tutorial system in the Division of History, Government, and Economics, and by the requirement of some supervision of the courses elected by students concentrating in History and Literature. The oral examinations, of doubtful efficacy, are a step in the same direction. And President Lowell suggests in his Report that the departments should supervise the work of men concentrating in their respective fields, whether they are candidates for distinction or not. "All these changes are in a direction away from the mechanical view of education which is the bane...
Aside from the interest attached to any major athletic contest with so formidable an opponent, the dual crew race on Lake Carnegie on April 20 brings Yale, Princeton, and Harvard a step nearer to a complete triangular system. With the remembrance of the University's defeat by Princeton in the Charles River Basin in 1913, the race will rank close to the fixed annual event in its importance. The contest, followed at intervals of a month by the meeting of Yale and Princeton and by the Harvard Yale regatta, will also offer a basis for judging the strength...
Supper will be served after the tenth. Lowe's orchestra of fifteen pieces has been secured for the evening, and the order of dances has been arranged as follows: (1) One step, (2) Fox Trot, (3) One step, (4) Waltz, (5) Fox Trot, (6) One step, (7) Fox Trot, (8) Waltz, (9) One step, (10) Fox Trot, (11) One step, (12) Waltz (13) Fox Trot, (14) One step, (15) Fox Trot, (16) Waltz, (17) One step, (18) Fox Trot, (19) One step, (20) Waltz...
Efforts to have the hop step and jump eliminated from the program were futile. Chairman Rubien has promised to take up with the National Championship Committee the advisability of reducing the entrance fee for junior events from $2 to $1 at the request of some of the smaller clubs...