Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grey obstruction posts have been placed in the exit driveway of the inner square of the Kirkland, Eliot and John Winthrop house grounds. This step was necessary on account of trouble caused by the parking of cars. No cars will be allowed on the driveway at all, as the obstruction will only be removed on special occasions...
...letter into Missouri, where a special election was to be held in the 7th Congressional district, outlining the blessings which have accrued to agrarians from the Republican Agricultural Marketing Act. Gruff, chunky Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown, President Hoover's chief political aide in the Cabinet, went a step further last week. Addressing a convention of the National Association of Postmasters at Omaha, Neb., he delivered a speech which only said one thing to his listeners: get busy and stump for the ticket. Coming from the Postmaster General to his postmasters it contained the implicit footnote: orders is orders...
Immediate Effects. London and New York received word of this great step with comparative calm. There were no bank runs, no rush to the stores to convert money in goods for hoarding. Bankers filled the papers with the sort of optimistic statements that doctors make to very sick patients...
...revision in the system of grading students at the School of Business Administration marks another step in the definite trend away from old, purely mechanical methods of marking. The Law School has long considered only final examinations, trying to estimate general ability and thorough knowledge, rather than averaging a group of grades obtained from periodic tests. To this same end points the new attitude of the Business School toward hour examinations. They have not yet become optional, as in the Law School, but their function is primarily aiding both the student in self-orienation, and the instructor in finding...
...more definite purpose than they do colleges; hence undergraduates need more than a minimum of checking up. Yet in numerous upperclass courses, professors are greatly hampered by the restrictions of existing requirements, while students are all too often held down by the frequency of monthly hours. The next step should pare down still farther the number of unnecessary tests in some undergraduate courses...