Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unanimously voting to subscribe as a whole to the Alumni Bulletin, the Senior class has taken a praiseworthy step. For every man who takes a degree with the class the Senior officers are authorized to take out a subscription for the Bulletin. In paying for these subscriptions the class funds are to be used only in the case of a member's declaring himself unable to pay on his own account...
...proposition is to have football games constituted by a given number of plays--40 plays to a period--and to discard the step-watch...
...emphasizing quality, rather than a system of red tape, in its new admission requirements, Dartmouth has taken a step indicative of the new trend in college education. As President Hopkins points out in his statement, the student with a good record in high school generally keeps up work of a similar grade in college. We are not primarily interested in getting men to college who have performed certain special curriculum gymnastics, we want men with sufficient educational background not to be lost when they enter, but our primary concern is that they should be in a position to give...
Harvard's announcement that it will award degrees on the basis of "a general examination in the undergraduate's field of concentration" is a step forward in the field of American university education. To be sure, it is not an original step, for it inaugurates a policy already in force, practiced at Oxford and Cambridge. Nevertheless, Harvard is playing the pioneer on this side of the Atlantic...
...situation and still considered by many as a "small college," Dartmouth, to have the position due her in intercollegiate athletics needs to associate herself closely with other colleges and universities of highest standing. The formation of the four-cornered combination last year was a big step in the scheme of concerted action with some of the strongest eastern colleges; this latest move should prove a big aid in binding together more firmly the institutions involved...