Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resignation was the only thing that could possibly relieve the strained relations His action in tendering his resignation yesterday was in keeping with his strong personal character. The crew cannot but regret losing contact with so estimable a man, and cannot help but admire him for taking the proper step when conditions warranted it. It is regrettable, but necessary that an individual be sacrificed for a group...
...agree, lead to broader education. The implied commendation of these purposes and the substantial aid it is in the power of college journalism to give them, should raise them somewhat in the student mind from the ephemeral and purely idealistic to the real and attainable. The action comprises one step away from collegiate Babbitry...
Such rigid discipline of sentences produced by tricky parentheses and binding clauses has not met with favor in a liberal world. Rightly enough, the leaders of college composition have rejected the goose-step construction for the more informal expressions of thought. There seems little danger of a formal invasion of college literature, or conversation...
...there exists another bondage none the less real because it substitutes a shuffle for a lock-step. Even at Harvard where current collegiatisms exert no great moral pressure, a colloquialism can become standard overnight. The latest innovation of this sort had a lowly beginning at Arthur's as "Sorry on the Seagoing." And now throughout the College, men are "sorry on" every missing object from shoe trees to the ace of spades...
...there would be but little dissent from the selection of site indicated by the plan submitted by the committee. It should be in the yard amidst the surroundings that are most typical of Harvard, where Harvard memories most numerously throng, and where Harvard men are reminded at almost every step of Harvard history and Harvard traditions. Examination of the drawings Indicate that the church as planned will improve greatly the general balance and harmony of the yard, facing across a wide open space the imposing Widener Library, with college buildings, old and new, grouped about as artistically as is possible...