Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this connection the report lauds the recent appointment of a Committee on Relations with Schools, in which it sees a step toward remedying the indifference decried above...
...where he had been for three and a half years as an exchange professor in history. In the article printed in part below he attacks the idea of dividing Harvard into smaller colleges on the Oxford plan, showing from his first hand knowledge of the two institutions how this step would be impractical and undesirable...
...however, did not occur suddenly a few years ago in consequence of the National Prohibition Law. It was rather a reflection of the gradual change in public sentiment which was taking place during the last half of the nineteenth century. When Cambridge voted to abolish licensed saloons a big step was taken in cutting down the drinking at Harvard...
Bearing out and supplementing Mr. Hamlen's statement, comes a leading editorial in the Independent for May 1, entitled "Universities and Givers." "An interesting and significant step," says the editorial, "has recently been taken at Harvard. The graduates and governing authorities of the university have established what is to be known as the Harvard Fund--to be raised annually among the alumni by voluntary contributions and paid into the treasury of the university without restriction as to its use and with entire freedom on the part of the Harvard Corporation to use as it may determine...
...melted in the glasses. The food cooled on the silver salvers. Every guest stood trembling in the corridor outside the locked door, listening to the thud and rowdydow of fists, waiting for the best man to unlock the door and step out. Would the boy be too much for the curmudgeon? Or would the canniness of the old man prevail to wrest the championship of the O'Brien family from the youth? Suddenly, silence fell in the locked room; the guests gasped; the door opened. "Better go in and sew him up, Doc," said Philadelphia Jack. The real name...