Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual type, has announced a general meeting for its members, to take place in the New Biological Institute. The purpose of this gathering is to enable the teachers and students to become acquainted, and to allow the undergraduates to inspect some of the research now in progress. The step is admittedly experimental, but its example may be of considerable importance in influencing others to follow...
...translate its academic enthusiasm into political reality. If, not fifty thousand men, but a hundred men, would apply themselves to the job which is presented to them there, with the intention of continuing the principles of the initial reform in a permanent organization, they would be taking the first step in the fulfillment of one of the responsibilities entailed in an education. New York is a great city and municipal government is the unit of national government; creating a permanent organization establishes the ladder by which other educated men can climb into practical life. Here is a challenge which cuts...
There has been a great deal of wordy talk of the undergraduate's political responsibilities, all of it true, but with little practical effect. The reason for this is that the undergraduate is ignorant of the initial step which will take him out of the sheltered university into practical political life. In England the Universities are the feeders for the civil service and for Parliament, and the undergraduate has the sanction of precedent and the encouragement of public opinion, which recognizes what he is trying to do and applauds him for it. Here, except in the diplomatic service, there...
...their annual meeting in Manhattan last week, officials of the Amateur Athletic Union decided unanimously to take a step that they have been talking about for 25 years: to abolish yards, feet and inches for measuring distances at U. S. track and field competitions, use meters instead, starting...
...meter-39.37 in.-represents a distance very close to null of a line around the earth passing through its poles. The yard is an arbitrary unit of unknown derivation. These were not the reasons for the A. A.U.'s step. Athletes of all nations except the U. S. and the British Empire measure distances in meters. The International Amateur Athletic Federation lists world's records only for metrical distances. Because U. S. athletes compete at metrical distances only once every four years-before and during Olympic games -they fail to get their share of world's records...