Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This step should please those who adopt the fruit-root attitude, who look for the cause of tutoring in fundamental faults in the Harvard system. Of course, the examination problem will have to be gone over more thoroughly in the future, for there is much to be done here. Moreover, the other half of faculty responsibility--lapses in instruction--is crying for investigation. But this step means progress in the struggle against the schools in the Square...
...receive offers from outside and when they are convinced that the situation after three or five years would be cut down at Harvard, they naturally go to other institutions. Less capable scholars have much less chance to receive an offer and respectively they would remain with us and step by step would supplement more and more the better scholars...
Last week the Commission began to look less sour. Having collected many facts, it was ready to start doing something about them. First step was to appoint a new director† who has his own youth story. Floyd Wesley Reeves, born on a South Dakota ranch staked out by his father not far from Custer's last stand, spent his boyhood tending cattle instead of going to school. He went through Robinson's Complete Arithmetic by himself, read Tennyson. Wordsworth, Shakespeare and Horatio Alger, began to teach in a country school at 17. Three years later he went...
...passed, no edict issued. Investors were simply advised that their cash is needed at home to finance rearmament, that the pound sterling must not be weakened by further flight of capital. This step towards totalitarian economics produced no excitement. Sir John simply wished, and British-fashion, business "assented...
...starts. The Ithacans shelled him off the mound three weeks ago but on that occasion he was attempting to twirl his second game in as many days. This time he will be fully rested. In addition, Slim Curtiss has turned in several neat performances and is ready to step in if needed; and Charley Brackett has received his baptism under fire. Curtiss won the Penn game last Friday and almost won his second game in as many days against the Crusaders Saturday. This improvement in Crimson twirling also makes the two-game Yale series on June...