Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coming to New York in 1912, the association took its greatest step in transferring its scope from the west and more especially the Middle West to the entire nation, and now the Associated Harvard Clubs has grown to comprise considerably more than a hundred clubs in the United States, in Canada, in Europe and in the Far East...
...reunion was held at St. Louis and in the following year at Chicago. The meeting at San Francisco in 1915 was held in connection with the Pan-Pacific Exposition of that year and was considered as great a step in bringing the far West in touch with the movement as the New York meeting had been in the East. In 1916 the reunion was held at Pittsburgh with President Lowell and Major H. L. Higginson '82 leading the marchers...
...difficulties for a student by guiding him into courses for which he has no qualifications; it happens not infrequently that such advice has been the chief cause of a student's failure in his college work. The present arrangement ought to be changed to meet that drawback. A first step has been taken by providing students with advisers in their departments of concentration; that helps, although the student still often knows more about the courses outside (sometimes inside) his department...
...Harvard has not followed suit, probably because such training is still primitive and of doubtful value. At the same time, a considerable number of the men, having been graduated from the University, are going into newspaper work. While a schools of journalism is not under consideration, there is a step toward developing a definite preparation for such a life work, that could be readily taken by the College authorities...
...employment service on the proper basis, it must be made a part of the administrative system of the University. The logical step is to create a comprehensive bureau in charge of a capable executive. Assisted by an adequate staff, he could use effective methods of judging applicants; from the medical examiner's office would come the health record; from the Committee on Admission pre-college statistics; from the Dean's Office the scholastic attainment. And to these, the result of intelligence tests--they have been proved 60 per cent accurate; a picture, and what is perhaps most important...