Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's increasing tendency to provide a suitable medium for the mature student who is fully aware of all he wants from his college career must not blind the authorities to the fact that there still are, and will continue to be, many men who step from school to college as a matter of course, with little appreciation of the difficulties inherent in readaptation to a wholly new system of learning...
Colonel Sir Albert Lambert Ward is a Conservative M. P., a War hero, an expert rifle shot, and a onetime Parliamentary Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty and to the Secretary of State for War. A careless step of his last week took the House of Commons back hundreds of years...
...Commons about six feet, or two sword lengths, apart. When Sir Charles Barry's present Victorian Parliament building was erected (1840-50), strips of red carpet before the Government and Opposition benches took the place of the original red lines, and to this day no member may step off the carpet while addressing the House...
With the abolition of the elementary language requirements, and the immediate application of the rulings as to distribution, the tendency of President Conant's policy becomes clearer. For the language step the CRIMSON duly offers thanks: the elementary requirement was a farce, and the courses built to meet it a waste and a nuisance. But to the steps presumably next in line, the realignment of the A.B. and the S.B. and the consequent slighting of Latin, there are, considered along with the changes in distribution, more problematic implications...
...priest went home with Joseph Shipulo, took one step through the door, inhaled and pulled Joseph back out the door. When the police came, they found Mrs. Shipulo two weeks dead. When finally Joseph understood that his wife was not asleep, he went raving mad, was taken to a hospital psychopathic ward. In the mattress on which he had lain beside his putrefying wife, police found $1,620 cash, two Liberty bonds, a bankbook showing $350 deposits and a dozen mortgages...