Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easy for a spell-bound generation to submerge the mind in the man. And only when the headmaster has been partially forgotten can the education be accorded his significance. For thirty years, Doctor Stearns has labored to make easier the difficult step between school and college. So-called progressives find much to criticize in the result; for there remains considerable old-fashioned iron in the Andover scholastic methods. Through all the fads and "isms" that have swept through America's educational system, Doctor Stearns has clung to the belief that the preparatory school is the place where a youthful mind...
...believe you will have one. I have no doubt you will find plenty of news in the next twelve months and that, after all, is the main object in your lives." ¶"The proposals to stop the reorganization of government functions which I have made is a backward step," exclaimed President Hoover when he discovered Congressional Democrats were planning to void his shuffle of 58 executive agencies and then give President Roosevelt even larger powers to make similar changes. "The same opposition has now arisen which has defeated every effort at reorganization for 25 years. . . . The proposal to transfer...
...Buckley. Next bout on the Schaaf program would properly be against huge Primo Camera with the winner to meet Sharkey for the title. This prospect seemed drab because 1) Sharkey has already beaten Camera, 2) it would seem improper for Schaaf to fight his own comanager. As a preliminary step toward straightening out the difficulty, Manager Buckley last week agreed to cancel his contract with Schaaf...
...gate receipts, the most uncertain variable in the whole financial procedure; and most important, there are definite indications that that source of revenue will continue to weaken, an interest wanes in he sport. The proposed fixed fee to be paid by all undergraduates on the term bills is a step to a firmer athletic financial policy, but it can hardly be expected to finance even a tenth of the whole program. If the University is to continue its boasted policy of "Athletics for All," there must be created some sort of endowment fund to supplement gate receipts and make budget...
...much factual knowledge a man absorbs in College provided that he graduate with the right attitude toward scholarship. The Society of Fellows is stirring reiteration of confidence in that belief, and a means to proving its value. The foundation of the Society is probably the most significant forward step in American education since President Eliot's liberalization of the college curriculum...