Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is a preliminary action. It is another step in moving our immigration stations from the point of reception to the point of inception. The hardships of Ellis Island and other stations where immigrants are frequently detained for prolonged periods and then deported, are to be done away with...
...University has recently taken a step designed to keep close the bonds with the Alumni by the appointment by the Board of Overseers of a Committee on Alumni Relations and of a Secretary for Alumni Affairs with an office in University Hall. The Committee is composed of the presidents of the University, of the Alumni Association, and of the Associated Harvard Clubs, ex officio, and of four Overseers,--a very representative group of graduates--and the Secretary for Alumni Affairs. The Secretary is J. W. D. seymour '17, who is also Secretary of the Alumni Association...
...most important step taken in the reorganization has been the appointment of six assistant secretaries to help the social service secretary, C. G. T. Lundell '27 in the direction of the work carried on in the 30 or so settlement houses to which the Phillips Brooks House sends undergraduate workers...
...Indeed, as a breeder of litigation, commas may be compared to the countless wigglers that in our youth we watched coming up to breathe in the family rainbarrel. To carry the simile one step further, it [the comma] should be abolished...
...that the judges of the Superior, Circuit and Criminal Courts, following the recommendations of the Board of Managers of the Chicago Bar Association, are considering barring from the court room during trials : cameras, typewriters, telegraph instruments, radio instruments and telephones. Such a ruling is said to be a first step in a course of procedure designed "to reflect in the newspapers a dignified administration of justice...