Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first step in a general reorganization of the Union, with the purpose of making it more truly an undergraduate Harvard Club, a new system for the invitation of guests to share its privileges has been put in effect. Under the new arrangement, a member of the Union may put up for consideration any friend who is not eligible for membership. Application cards may be obtained at the door, and when filled out should be sent to the Undergraduate Union Committee at the Graduate Manager's office. The period for which the guest is invited is two weeks at a time...
...strictly advantageous to the working class, it is a policy that is to the best interest of the country as a whole. If laborers work hard and steadily and if they accept lower wages which, with the changing economic conditions, means no change in standard, a long step will have been taken toward restoring this country to a peace regime...
That is due, thinks Mr. Osborne, to deficient educational methods which characterize our entire system. The absence of sufficient responsibility in our training is the big lack of the method. School self government is one step in the right direction. To be sure many approaches have been made, especially by girls' schools, which are in that respect far ahead of those for men. Mr. Osborne's idea is that this denial of responsibility can never make for good citizenship, which can be taught only by being practiced. Athletics are the only branch of our educational life where we are trusted...
Professor Baker is to be congratulated. This new step will make his Workshop more helpful than ever in the University, and at the same time will increase and strengthen the stock of talent from which it may draw. The new competition will not only give all students a greater opportunity to share in the benefits of this course, but may also prove to be an opening wedge for chances in other branches of the drama as well...
...elections, in rejecting the Royalist plea for a return to the old status of things, will prove to be an important step in the settlement of Greece's internal troubles. The remainder now rests with the Venezelists themselves...