Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubt the wisdom of the proposed step. The award of a minor letter without any strings attached to it would do more than remove a tangle of cumbersome formalities that now attend the recognition of many teams. It would go far toward placing all sports on the basis of parity which they deserve. The division of sports into "major" and "minor" is a remnant of the days when there attached to each game a certain individual glory that was saleable off the athletic field. Because football attracted more spectators than soccer or lacrosse, and therefore gave its players more publicity...
...action of its Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry in striking from its list of "new and nonofficial remedies" a number of ergot preparations (important to women) believed to contain "putrefactive amines." Dr. Henry Hurd Rusby, Dean of Columbia University's College of Pharmacy, hailed this action as a step forward in his campaign against impure ergot, which he declares is now entering the U. S. from Russia and Poland (TIME, April 15). A scientist, Dr. Rusby resented and denounced any suggestion that his attack on Russian and Polish ergot might arise from any other cause than his wish...
Ideal would be the bank that had all deposits and no withdrawals. Utopian, of course, such an idea. Yet a long step toward it has been made in the organization of a new (as yet unnamed) trust company in Scarsdale. Unique feature of this bank will be a bill-paying service for depositors. When a bill comes to the depositor's home, it is approved, sent to the bank and paid by the bank out of the depositor's funds. Thus the depositor is saved the mental anguish of writing a check and Scarsdale tradesmen receive prompt remittances...
...crowning event the Council announces that Harvard is to withdraw from the inter-collegiate league. Comparing at a time when Harvard has just completed a not too successful season in the league where it has formerly held many championships, this resignation is open to unpleasant interpretation. The step is explained on the ground that Harvard needs freedom for experimentation and innovation. Others may perhaps recall that the number of league debates is limited, and that outside of these contests Harvard would still have opportunity for plenty of experimentation. Furthermore, to keep the league debates as a conservative balance against radical...
...most ghostbusters is to expose the tricks performed by fake spirit mediums. Last week Ghostbuster Joseph Dunninger went a step farther. At a seance in the Manhattan offices of Science and Invention, in broad daylight, before 20 perplexed witnesses, he showed a number of "mystical" phenomena which fakers have not yet discovered...