Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frequently in opposition to his professor that there is more to a college education than the required studies. The recent outbreak at Colorado College education than the required studies. The recent outbreak at Colorado College resulting in the President's resignation, where the undergraduates decorated the president's door step with a bomb and placed appropriate specimens from the zoological museum about his lawn was a case of student self-expression carried to a ridiculous extreme. In one southern university the faculty has found it profitable to grant a lenient leave of absence for students wishing to go "bumming...
President Harding took an important step when he settled a little dispute which had grown up among the members of the Tariff Commission. Great political as well as economic results may follow the President's decision...
...Minister, abandoned a projected visit to Warsaw, capital of Poland, on account of strong opposition shown by the Polish public. The object of Dr. Benes' visit was to induce Poland to enter the Little Entente-Czecho-Slovakia, Yugo-Slavia, Rumania. But Polish public opinion is against such a step...
Still, the "Symposium", like the Intercollegiate and Silver bay conferences, is as Pres. Harding would say "a step in the right direction", and every encouragement should be offered those who have the initiative and courage to try to remedy an unsatisfactory situation. Educational methods are acknowledged to be far from perfect; and any improvements which students can suggest will be received eagerly by everyone, and not least of all by the muchabused faculties...
...most hard-boiled and shelled-back variety-and proud of it." ¶ Lord Robert Cecil spoke on the League of Nations and the desirability of the United States entering it. ¶The League, by resolution, pledged its support to the President's World Court proposal as a first step toward international amity...