Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...states, the duty would "seriously handicap American libraries, teachers, and men of science, and would accomplish no useful purpose commensurate with the harm done to American scholarship". If other authoritative bodies like the Corporation will take similar action, Congress should be made to see the error of its contemplated step before the sentence is sealed...
...first place, it will spare a man who is incapable of profiting by college work, from the waste of his time and money in entering. Secondly, and most important from the college's view-point, it will offer a fair and rational means of elimination as a step toward limited enrollment...
When the University crew makes its official debut on the river against Pennsylvania next April it will be taking the first step in a schedule calculated to test its power to the limit. Not in years has a University eight faced a task such as is called for on this season's program, for not only does the crew card list the names of five of the leading combinations in the country, crews that have during past years won highest honors in intercollegiate rowing, but it contains many other racing features including the usual meets with...
That America, the only rested nation, must take the first step to solve the labor problem of war-weary Europe, and must realize that a solution demands good will combined with information and intelligence was the conclusion reached by Mr. Whiting Williams in a talk on "Experiences in the Mines of France and the Saar Valley" before the Graduate Schools Society in Phillips Brooks House yesterday afternoon. Mr. Williams, following the method of studying labor conditions that he used in the United States and Great Britain, worked as a laborer in the mines of the Saar Valley...
...perhaps a slower but certainly a surer way to fix facts in the memory; it trains the mind to be an active organ instead of a passive receptacle for knowledge; above all, it fits a man to apply himself to the life he will meet after college, where every step he takes is not so much a lesson to be learned as it is a problem to be solved...