Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most hopeful of all the matters yet taken up is the stand which one member has bravely taken against children's stories. Here is indeed a step forward. What a multitude of sins would go with the extinction of Johnny Smith and his splendid promptness at school, or Bully the Bullfrog with his fearful war-cry, or the Fairy Prince who was so kind to Freddie While the radio is being controlled by these same measures Mr. J. H. Hammond has perfected inventions which may make it useful. Many of these he has turned over to the government, among them...
...long as one can go upstairs two steps at a time, is a saying attributed to Dr. Eliot. It is difficult to believe that he ever went upstairs at such an intemperate pace even in youth.. It is remembered by one who knew him many years ago that even then his intellectual attitude was suggested by the question. "What is the next step?" but took it always deliberately, serenely, fearlessly. With all his remarkable achievement, he did not take two steps at a time. Yet, as Oliver Wendell Holmes said of him when he was a young President...
...Eliot's mere living on that brings congratulations from all over this land and form other lands as he takes the first step in his nineties. He faces the nineties with all the zest of mind with which he fronted the tasks of his forties and fifties and sixties. A few years ago he gave, in a summary of his educational experience and advice, what some one called his "last will and testament," but it was only a few days ago that he added a codiell to meet the changes in outward conditions and to mark the progress which...
This plan has been known to the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports for some time, but no steps have yet been taken to provide for the carrying on of his work as Rowing Director in 1923-24. The step will necessarily involve a severance of official connection with University crew work, but Dr. Howe will continue next autumn his interest in the organization of Harvard rowing in the development of which he has played such a conspicuous part. Dr. Howe will continue his duties for the remainder of this year as head of the University, crew organization...
...arrangements thus made constitutes an important step in the development of the Harvard tutorial system, which is an innovation in American college education. Its most striking characteristic and that which differentiates it from other systems, is that the work of the tutor is independent of courses, not subordinate to them; for tutorial instruction is quite separate from course instruction...