Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power. What they forget are the other guarantees of the Constitution, the tradition of the courts, and the stubbornly democratic attitude of the people shown now in the fight against Supreme Court changes. The narrow margin with which the amendment would squeeze into the Constitution itself tells Congress to step gingerly into new legislation. Even the stoutest attackers of the bill admit that the conditions in a few states need federal correction, and the issue is the passage of a law strong and explicit enough to put the United States on a par with other countries. The comic episodes...
...significance of this step is manifold. It shows, among other things that although only five undergraduates in Harvard are interested in the sex problem, judging by last year's turn-out at the first Hygiene lecture, it still maintains a warm sport in the hearts of some of the youth of today...
...righteousness, the administration felt it fitting and timely to declare that a course covering the stimulating though delicate field of "Marriage and Famliy Life" would be given during the remainder of the year. Constant clamor from the student body, ably supported by faculty opinion, has resulted in the drastic step which Vassar has undertaken...
...raging at Washington with a shining new essay, distinguished for its inconsistency. Professor Corwin, like President Roosevelt and his colleagues, is one of that specie known as "impatient liberalists"--the specie which continually bemoans the "slowness and impracticality" of the amending process. In beautiful logic, Professor Corwin proceeded from step to step, building up a magnificent case against the propriety of the Supreme Court's powers, and then abruptly deserted his theme. Instead of forcing the inevitable issue, instead of determining then and there in whom lies ultimate authority and getting it over with, he slid all the way down...
...know that the advisability of striking changes is being considered in all quarters. The present situation, as demonstrated of this fall, was far from ideal. Prospects for an improvement in the next few years look increasingly dark. By dealing with intra-mural athletics the Committee seems, perhaps, to side-step the more pressing problem of big time Varsity football, but a second's thought will show how inextricably tied up the question of House, or intra-mural, athletics is with the rest of the program. Gate receipts, gate receipts, and receipts again spell doom or a vigorius existence...