Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...owned ground available for the structure are undesirable for this purpose because of their proximity to residential or working sections of the University. It would appear that, apart from the House on Boylston street, a replacement of the power plant built on land that is now waste is a step of immediate usefulness which may be taken on Harvard's unimproved property...
...peddle his biscuits in baskets" (bumptious bunk!) either in Nebraska, which he left about 1879, or in Denver, where, in 1893, he was, as always, dignified and rather magnificent. If those who have been trying to make his story sell biscuits had first taken the obvious step of looking up the history of this one of our most characteristically vital Americans, they could have undoubtedly made valuable copy and sold more biscuits...
...obviously, a grave experiment, and one whose outcome will be eagerly awaited. But it is, we feel sure, a step in the direction which all progressive universities must take if they are to avoid the consequences of overgrowth and standardization. The situation at Princeton is less pressing than at Harvard; Princeton has neither Harvard's severe growing pains not its noticeable lack of essential unity. And yet Princeton cannot be excepted from the observation that our leading universities must find some method of justifying their leadership if this leadership is to remain more than purely nominal; somehow they must provide...
...declaration of independence. College sentiment toward the P. B. H. has changed in the past few years to a disinterest that refuses to contribute time and effort to its programs. More than a denial to the College of the voting privilege which it has long abused, the latest step of the P. B. H. cabinet is a complete divorce from a dependence which has been favored too long...
Expectant scribes could only remain certain that when Andre Tardieu does choose to speak, he will step briskly up the stair leading to the Chamber's Tribune, open his remarks with accustomed arrogance, and drive straight on to his conclusions with merciless, go-getting logic, always presenting his thesis as simply ban sens (common sense), and implying that his opponents must be visionary scatter-brains...