Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This step follows directly the action of the University and Yale about a month ago, which severed their connection with the League, chiefly because of the difficulties of schedule making which it necessitated...
...action of the Faculty in increasing its reliance upon the initiative of the individual student in the University is announced as frankly experimental, but if not abused, as a step toward probable further extension of academic freedom in the University. The success of the Dean's list plan has been acknowledged by successive steps in enlarging the group included, and the decision of the Faculty to leave the attendance of classes by Seniors to their own discretion is significant of the increasing confidence and reliance to be placed in the students...
...groups on the Rank List, were first given the privilege of attending classes and lectures at their own discretion. This included the right to cuts both before and after vacations. Later the Dean List was enlarged to include group three of the Rank List. This was a larger step in the extension of freedom, as the third group has consistently included many more than the number of students ranked in the first two classes. Subsequently the opportunity for Freshmen to gain Dean's List privileges was granted and first year men who had gained the required grades after...
...extension of virtual Dean's List privileges to all Seniors in good standing is another definite step along the liberal lines which have come to characterize the administration of discipline in the University. Harvard has always shunned the childlike disciplinary method of prescribing a fixed number of unexcused absences which a student may take with impunity, a course comparable to the doling out of a poison harmless to a certain point and fatal thereafter. In colleges where this system is followed, the records show the prevalence of the very human tendency to take the full number allowed. The Dean...
...theories upon which the famed Steinach operation is performed, Dr. R. M. Oslund of the University of Illinois offered evidence that, of the two types of cells produced by the reproductive glands, it is the germ cells, and not the interstitial cells, that generate the eye-brightening, step-quickening, youth-giving hormones...