Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the announcement that the Athletic Committee has accepted the recommendations of its special committee to investigate Minor sports the Athletic Association has taken another step forward in its direction of Harvard athletics...
...late Sunday evening; an automobile containing a man and his wife with their small child beside them is driving leisurely home from a Sunday holiday. Two men with sawed off shot guns step from the bushes and order the vehicle to halt. Thoughts of highway robberies, his family, a hundred dollars in his pocket, who knows what flash through the mind of the man at the wheel. Confused he hesitates before applying the breaks. Two shotguns blaze out, twenty-six slugs strike the side of the car, and the driver crumples over into his wife's lap, dead. Such...
...relative permanency of the new secretaryships. Mr. McCord will be able to plan and execute a consistent policy throughout the whole period of transition, and even the student secretary will probably serve long enough to obtain a thorough grasp of the Union's affairs. As the first step in the reorganization essential to cooperation with the House Plan the action of the Graduate Board is both progressive and farsighted...
...Harvard Union faces a readjustment as radical as any made in recent years. The appointment of J. A. Lynd '32 to take over their duties except for the arrangements for speakers which will be in the hands of D. T. W. McCord '21, the Harvard Union makes its first step in the readjustment which will be necessary to meet the conditions of the new House Plan...
...sufferings of those incurables who ask it of us?" he asked himself. Of course, human life is inviolable. Yet the state executes criminals. And of course religion forbids good-intentioned murder as well as offensive murder and suicide. But religion is a personal matter. Step by step he puzzled out the logic of his ethical problem: "Has the state, for reasons which are at bottom religious, the right to refuse to incurables the pity which they demand? Has not the individual the right to his liberty? So long as the law is not amended the law throws onto individuals...