Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Varsity Club,"--that organization which has appeared like a "club without a purpose" to the average undergraduate,--has taken a step that will do much toward freeing itself of such a label by planning a series of luncheons for the "H" men in the vicinity of Boston,--both graduate and undergraduate. In this way the club will do a great deal for athletics at Harvard by establishing a closer connection between the present and past Crimson athletes, and thus helping to revive the athletic traditions which the war has interrupted. Last spring the many breaches of athletic discipline" which shocked...
...matter of deciding this very vital question, because if the United States should withdraw its control and cease to exercise its power of protection over the Islands prematurely it would very likely ensue that internal complications would follow and some other country might feel it incumbent upon them to step in and take up the burden which our country has just laid down...
...stability; that everybody--Filipino, American, or foreigner--who lives or has interests in the Philippine Islands, has a right to expect that whatever course the United States pursues stability is assured. He should believe that justice, freedom and good order will prevail in the Islands and that no step looking toward independence of the Islands will be taken until the Filipinos themselves are protected against the evils which would unquestionably follow a lack of stability in their governmental institutions...
Such a revision of the university point of view is welcome. It is undoubtedly a step in the right direction and certain to give high rank at college an increased respect. But the American point of view changes slowly and with reason. Initiative, energy, imagination the qualities that we as a nation rate most highly--are not the least measured by college marks as they have been awarded in the past. Participation in other college activities--athletics, college periodicals and so on--has been a much truer test as a rule. Until the whole attitude of college students is overturned...
...only in binding but as integral parts of various sets; some of them are rare and difficult to replace. It is a distinct privilege for students to be allowed their handling at all, and that this permission should be abused is intolerable. Selfishness has indeed taken a far step when a sanctum like the Farnsworth Room is desecrated by manifest gaps in its rows of books. To close the room would be a sorry indication of the sense of responsibility and honor of the modern college student, and a disgrace to Harvard in particular. Only an immediate stoppage...