Word: steps
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Moroccan situation gave Italy her chance to step into Tripoli, a land filled with a motley crowd of people. There are whites, Arabs, and Negroes composing the chief element of the population, and there are the Bedouins or nomadic Arabs living in the oases which are sprinkled over the desert and around the towns. But these people are hard to civilize and, as much as they hate their Turkish conquerors, they like them better than they do the Christians. The country has always been closed to the civilizing influences which have sometimes been set toward it. It remains a land...
...order giving Soley & Blair Company of Boston, the permission to move Dean Fenn's house, which now stands on Quincy street, has been signed by the mayor of Cambridge. This is the first step towards the building of President Lowell's new house. Work has already been begun. The university is going to divide the house into four sections, and the contractors will move these sections to Divinity avenue at point opposite the opening between Divinity Hall and the library...
...heated, or about 50 rooms. For several years this building, formerly the best and most popular of the Yard dormitories, has not been wholly rented, and as there has been a steadily growing demand for steam heat on the part of applicants for rooms, it is hoped that the step will result in restoring the hall to something like its former desirability. There are nine good rooms still vacant for the present year...
...effectually lays the ghosts of certain historical anonymities who should rest with the anteColumban discoverers of America and the preAdamite men. It would be an ironical welcome indeed if the young Freshman scion of the Founder's family should learn from our lips that he is historically only a step...
...should be more marked from now on, and there should be less danger of an overtrained team on the day of the Yale game. With two big games ahead instead of one, Captain Fisher and his men face a schedule considerably harder than for several years past. At every step of their progress the sympathy and enthusiastic interest of the University will be with them...