Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once again preparations for the "big show" in June are under way. The first step is the selection of the Senior Nominating Committee, which proposes names for the officers and other title-holders of the Class of '37, and the appointment of the Juniors who distribute and tabulate the returns. At the same time the Student Council has announced the selection of the Nominating Committee for next year's Senior Album. The personnel of each of these groups is such as to inspire confidence that the work will be well done...
Republicans, who wailed that the Roosevelt reform would freeze incumbent Democrats into their jobs for good, joined Democrats who felt as Oklahoma's Nichols did about losing their patronage. Defying the President, who had asked for the bill as first step in his great program of reorganization (TIME, Jan. 25), the rebellious bloc engineered amendments which emasculated it. As though to symbolize the anonymous standing votes by which this deed was accomplished, lights suddenly winked out, plunging the House into darkness. When light was restored and Administration leaders had forced a roll-call vote, the timid rebels shrank from...
...loudly that he had to be rushed out by an adult. After the benediction, as the Duke & Duchess of Norfolk were returning up the aisle, pew occupants were obliged to restrain another page who persisted in the notion that it would be jolly if he could manage to step on the bride's 15-ft. train of shimmering silver...
...College can select its candidates, at least tentatively, in June, thereby adding tot he lustre of the already bright national awards. And those who fail will not have to sit around until August building castles in the air. Thus the new tests can be taken as another step forward in the educational march, and one which reflects particular credit on Harvard...
Taking a definite step forward in the educational field, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia will require all candidates for Freshman scholarships to take modern scholastic aptitude and scholastic achievement tests, starting this spring...