Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...firm belief that in so far as the monuments of learning and the literary and artistic treasures can be replaced, they will be replaced through the generosity of those friends of scholarship who suffer with you in your loss, and who today rejoice with you in this first step toward restoration. It makes me particularly happy that my own countrymen have had the privilege of sharing in this noble undertaking, and it is my hope that the friendship between the University of Louvain and the universities of America will prove to be one of the strong ties which hold...
...avalanche of honors is sweeping everything before it. Old favorites among the authors, finding their thrones tottering, protest against the injustice of a system which makes it possible for an unknown at one step to reach popular fame. Young "also-rans form street-corner indignation meetings against the injustice of all plebiscites and all judges. Nevertheless authors, a old and young, unite in striving to out-elbow each other in the shuffle for decorated popularity...
...through the Mediterranean until finally, after four months spent in about thirty-five different ports, it returns to England supposedly laden with orders and business opportunities. In short, it is an attempt on a grand scale to build up the fallen fortunes of British manufacturing, and so the first step toward an England industrially active and financially solvent...
...irony of the fifth Henry's position has never come home to us so strongly before now. Although the class of 1922 will start the day off in the traditional garb of the scholar, the sun will not have set before the majority will have gone through the first step in the process of proving its claim to such title; or at any rate, claim to a degree, which can by stretch of imagination be called the label of the scholar. And, no doubt, the cap and gown will make examinees feel more learned, and lend potency to their exhibitions...
...step toward a fair and honest treatment of the question is the examination of individual cases of doubtful standing by a faculty athletic advisor. A professor, at least, could be trusted to decide such matters with impartiality toward both man and college, and sport would be rid of the charges of lying professionals...