Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this logical development of intramural athletics. Both can be overcome with the assistance of the Masters and the H.A.A., although it is true that a donor must be found if the system is to be brought to the perfection which it has attained at Yale. Even the daring step of a compulsory athletic fee, recommended by the Council, and the support of paid managers from the temporary student employment fund will not provide sufficient revenue. It seems doubtful whether the Houses will be able to scrape the pot for much more cash, but where there's a will, there...
...Next step at Harvard is for the H.A.A. to junk the farcical student control which the so-called "representative" athletic committees now fail to provide and set up some system whereby athletics can be made to serve all students, Varsity and non-varsity alike. With everyone paying ten dollars, an active voice which can be heard is only fair. One of the most obvious methods by which this can be achieved is indicated by the system of student managers, broad participation, and consequent undergraduate control which have been so successful at Yale. Only by the adoption of the Council...
...first step towards a middle-of-the-road government is the cessation of hostilities under a board of arbitration. Immediately the foreign soldiers would tend to leave, for events show that Italy and Germany do not care what sort of a government is set up as long as it is not Communism, and that Russia feels similarly about Fascism. There is some chance that eight months of war have not wiped out all bases for a compromise by both sides aided in their negotiations by a third impartial country. As bait for maintenance of a moderate government and a real...
...formally as a traitor, and no one would have to bear the burden of being called murderer. But if you have now arrived at a just subordination of the pretensions of the Church to the welfare of the State, remember that it is we who took the first step. . . . We have served your interests; we merit your applause; and if there is any guilt whatever in the matter, you must share it with...
Washington had often considered sending his step-son to Harvard College. This fact is mentioned in a letter written to David Stuart from Mt. Vernon, January...