Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tricks. To newshawks, Commissioner Valentine explained that there was no law specifically covering car-watchers. that soft-hearted judges usually let them off in court when they pleaded that they were "only trying to make an honest living." The Board of Aldermen at once took the logical step for cities blighted by the car-watching racket, by drafting amendments to the Traffic Code and City Charter forbidding it. Before they were passed, to City Magistrate Anthony F. Burke was brought 18-year-old Negro John Preston who admitted soliciting to watch cars, pleaded that no one had to accept...
Such a reform by faculty members interested in the advancement of American literature at Harvard promises much for the future. It is to be hoped this simple step forward will lead to more improvements along the same lines and that some day American literature may become a department in its own right, as important as that of English literature...
...tutoring schools, that they haven't done enough work, was studiously omitted from the questionnaire on the grounds that the Committee was afraid that "people wouldn't admit it." Well, perhaps. But to disguise this under "too much time spent in extra-curricular activity" is hardly a step toward the plain-speaking that is necessary if the problem is to be solved...
Although Harvard is but one step nearer to actual acquisition of several million dollars, it is not too early to encourage thorough discussion of the uses to which it might be put. Three approaches seem possible today; the establishment of a Graduate School of Journalism, the opening of a new undergraduate Field of Concentration, or the building upon courses already established. Each suggestion has measurable validity; each is open to sharp criticism. And the question as to what extent the teaching of journalism can be divorced from actual newspaper experience cannot be disentangled from the main theme. Then...
...CRIMSON, in planning this year's session, hoped to make as much provision as possible for participation on the part of the student body. The current opening of the presidencies of three round tables to members of the university not necessarily connected with the newspaper is the initial step in carrying out this policy...