Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Michigain Daily, commenting on the choice of a neutral party to select officials for the Harvard-Yale football game, says that this step, coupled with such a one as the formation in recent years of an eastern basketball league, "shows a tendency towards a single goal-an eastern conference". Such an organization would, according to the Daily, perform the same function as the Big Ten Conference; its power would eventually become as great and its unity as strong...
...William Joynson-Hicks, Secretary of State for Home Affairs, took a step of such grave moment last week, as to threaten his own position in the Baldwin Cabinet, and render probable a break in the diplomatic relations between Great Britain and Soviet Russia...
...possible for Yale to introduce in the Law School something of the spirit and atmosphere of the English Inns-of-Court," said R. M. Hutchins, Acting Dean of the School, in commenting today upon the University announcement. "Yale is the first privately endowed university in America to take this step. The men will live together and frequently, if not always, dine together. Thus will be developed, we hope, an intimate sense of professional solidarity and interest in legal problems. The recent important changes in the policy of the School in limiting the entering class to 100 and extending the Honors...
...pursuit of knowledge and culture, follows a mode of life which makes him necessarily a passive element in the educational system he is most closely associated with. He listens to lectures, absorbs concerts, and delights in the exhibitions of art which frequently claim his attention, but rarely does he step out of the role of listener and onlooker. Lectures without examinations or section meetings engender a feeling of passivity in the most ardent and avid pursuer of learning. Partly to break this habitual receptivity of mood, partly to vary the monotony of merely sitting and listening the Vagabond will attend...
...noted that this step of the Corporation and Overseers does not necessitate a four year course for the attainment of one's degree. It only excludes the possibility of future mid-year graduations. And while there is no reason why February is not as fitting a time as June at which to conclude one's college career the very fact that so few choose to do so is a very good motive for entirely eliminating the opportunity; when betterment in the quality of Generals is an added incentive, the action is praiseworthy. Anything making for a further chance in which...