Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Faculty Council's action in broadening the scope of Plan B and allowing advanced students to enter Harvard with less red tape is an added step in the right direction. For some time it has been realized that a standard entrance requirement is in effect unfair to a certain percentage of those seeking admission. Students more developed than the majority of their fellows have entered Harvard with honors, but have been held back for a year by the present unwise blanket system of elementary requirements...
First and foremost of the courses that need new life is Chemistry A. With a professor unavailable to his students and assistants alike, with laboratory and lectures ill-tuned and out of step, and with an inordinate amount of memorizing and out-moded theory, the course presents a pitiful introduction to the rest of the field. Many concentrators have found themselves insufficiently prepared for advanced work, both in theoretical knowledge and in laboratory techinque. Aside from this main blot on the Division, there is also need for a more thorough bio-chemistry course than the half year now given...
...Manhattan fortnight ago President David Dubinsky of the huge Ladies' Garment Workers' Union publicly renounced his membership in the Socialist Party, declared himself for President Roosevelt. Last week the progressive American Federation of Hosiery Workers fell in step with its 60,000 members. Convening in Philadelphia, delegates approved (113-to-47) a resolution that "wage-earners have no other practical alternative than to vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Presidential election...
...Step by step," gloomed Representative James W. Wadsworth in the House one day last fortnight, "the House of Representatives is losing its place as an institution. . . . We do not originate much more than the enacting clause of most legislation...
...hypothetical Queen's first-born son. Last week the Select Committee allotted the non-existent Prince of Wales an annual $125,000, to start accumulating at once. Thus, even if Edward VIII marries within the year, the next Prince of Wales on his 21st birthday would step into a fortune of at least $3,000,000, in addition to his income from the Duchy of Cornwall...