Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...April, 1918, it was decided to suspend all he activities of the Harvard Dramatic Club for the duration of the War. The reasons for such a step were plain the Club felt that the expenses of a wartime production could not be met by the receipts gained by playing to wartime audiences; and, also, the large number of Club members who had entered the service had greatly decreased the number of available players. So, while the war lasted, the Dramatic Club--like so many other college activities--remained quiescent. Perhaps this period of idleness brought to the public the realization...
...offered his cooperation in a letter to the paper, and now the officials of the Union have started an experiment to see just how keenly those who are taking pot luck about the Square wish to enjoy better eating conditions. With this installation of club tables an actual step has been taken toward a permanent system of this kind on a larger scale. Thus it is obvious that those who wish to see a central eating place, run by the University, where food can be obtained at sane prices and eaten in congenial surroundings in a fashion far removed from...
Once more the "club" table system, celebrated as a Harvard tradition, has made its appearance. It is the first step taken toward a remedy for the present unsatisfactory eating conditions...
...Moved by religious vision at the Eucharistic Congress in Chicago (TIME, June 28), Miss Marie A. Easby-Smith, 35, woman lawyer of Washington, D. C., renounced last week her profession and the world, to enter a Maryland convent. Miss Easby-Smith's priest advised her against the step, but she said to her father, simply: "I am going...
...Recent steps taken by both students and faculties to give the students a more important voice in affairs of the college have been of a very encouraging nature, but such a joker and such a sop to the students' ego as this Student Court can hardly be recognized as a forward step. Instead of building up an undergraduate Secret Service. Penn State would do well to develop a spirit of honest cooperation between faculty and student body in constructive policies...