Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tuesday, December 11 and 12. Polls will be at Harvard, Sever, and Pierce Halls between 10 and 1 o'clock, and at Phillips Brooks House between 11 and 1.30 o'clock. This year, for the first time, ballots will be available in each of the seven Houses. This step is taken in order to get more Seniors to vote this year. Last year only 250 votes were cast, and the Junior Committee is anxious to remedy this "indifference...
...remunerative task of publishing a new magazine, "Story," to contain almost exclusively stories which had been rejected because the authors were unknown, or which were refused because the style or material was considered unorthodox by editors in the leading magazines in the United States. This was a bold step since so many little magazines have started in the past decade, and have failed almost immediately--of course such brilliant failures can only be attributed to the lethargic public...
...first step, then, must be for the departments to persuade their leading men to become tutors. It is a type of work worthy of the finest minds, and is emphatically not beneath the dignity of full professors, or brilliant research men. The future success of tutorial work depends to a large extent upon these men consenting to take over a few tutees. In this connection, the University ought to pursue a definite policy of lending prestige to the position of tutor. In some degree, this will naturally result from a system of limiting the number of tutors...
...First step would be to freeze all Hungarians "each in the class to which he rightly belongs." Jews would be definitely classed apart, gentiles classed according to occupation or hereditary rank. "As in medieval times no Hungarian would be permitted to change his class or marry a woman of another class except by special dispensation of the State...
...that in 1929 his companies owed about $90,000,000, all in short-term loans. In the summer of 1929 Mr. Fox was hurt in an automobile accident, laid up for several months. Whether lor this or for other reasons, neither Mr. Fox nor his bankers took the obvious step of selling to the public new stock in Fox Film and Fox Theatres. Then the market crash of October 1929 threw the whole problem of refinancing Mr. Fox into the banks...