Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When several undergraduates last spring were invited to be present at and participate in the deliberations of the Overseers of Harvard University, the step was greeted in Boston newspapers under large headlines as a startling innovation. When on Sunday of this week, four students met with a committee of the Overseers to discuss problems connected with Harvard College, the daily press ignored it. There could be no better proof that what was an innovation has become a precedent...
...administrators and students. In tendering its resignation, the Princeton Council has registered the most effective protest possible against that form of student government which by edict of the dean hopes to effect lasting and beneficial reform. It is brought out clearly in the resignation of the Council that the step is taken not as a protest against the particular reform in question, but against the spirit in which it is made...
...said sooner or later. It does not quite penetrate to the fundamentals of the athletic problem. Because it comes from the man upon whom Harvard has rightly staked the solution of that problem it is disappointing judged by any other standard than that of a somewhat over cautions step by step advance...
...ride in these elevators. You will have to step out." The elevator attendant was talking to one of the doctors?Dr. A. G. Fairfax, Negro, of Chicago. Dr. Fairfax skilled to discountenance indignities, replied: "I am standing here on my two feet?and here I stay!" His white colleagues murmured sympathetically; and dumbfounded the elevatorman carried the group to the lobby on the ground floor. Later he explained: "I did not know the colored man was a doctor. My orders from the desk are to allow no colored man to ride in the elevators unless he is with a white...
...Pont. "General Motors does not want to step on your foot," said General Motors' Chairman Pierre S. duPont to Henry Ford in 1921, according to onetime Ford Sales Manager Norval A. Hawkins. Salesman Hawkins testified further: "Mr. duPont knew that if Mr. Ford wanted to he could sell his car so cheap as to make Chevrolet high priced." In 1912 the Ford company could have sold cars at cost and still earned $1,325,000 or 66% on its then capitalization of $2,000,000. Today the company can sell cars at cost and profit from the sale...