Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...informal as the orderly conduct will allow. We do not try to copy any of the Geneva formalities. I cannot agree with the statement that informal discussion will serve better the international cause at Harvard, the opposite having been proved again and again. Discussions never overcome the primary step of political thought, criticism, without taking the next step of constructive thought. Furthermore international politics are today not any more a hobby, but a vital matter to us students, the world depression developing into a world catastrophe through governments not living up to the greatness of the problem, and through...
...study the customs and conditions of another social stratum; all have experienced the exhilaration of volunteer service work. Hitherto, upperclassmen have responded in large numbers; but now House interests have diverted their attention. In altering its organization to fit new conditions, the Phillips Brooks House takes a well considered step toward insuring its efforts hearty support that the work deserves...
...receivership), waved a 5? cigar at a newsman in Cleveland and told of his impoverishment. "For a time I was simply crushed. I hardly knew what to do. If the news got around to the Mayfield Club or Pepper Pike Club that I had lost my step-ins, think what would happen to my social standing. . . . But the best philosophy I ever heard can be expressed in three words - 'don't kid yourself.' That realization helped me to cure my Depression." Because clergymen objected, a playlet called "Does Crime Pay?", starring plump Mrs. Alice Schiffer Diamond, widow...
...Boston into the grave, consoled on his death bed by Dr. Frothingham's assurance that "at least he had not outlived his teeth." Ralph and his four brothers did their poor mother's chores, pastured the cows on Boston Common. But it was during summer visits in Concord, at Step-Grandfather Ripley's manse, that New England Nature smiled on him. By the responsive leaping of his heart, he felt that his own human nature was designed for glorious affairs...
Hereafter the News will refer to the residential system to be inaugurated in 1933 as the "College Plan." In using the term "House Plan", as Professor Seymour points out, "we are merely following in the step of Harvard and are losing the chance of preserving the distinctiveness of our own scheme." Furthermore, while the units at Harvard are actually called Houses, at Yale they will be known as Colleges...