Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next step, Boston stages and screens just now are largely filled with mediocrities of one sort or another. There is one attraction, however, that is worth a whole season of average productions. This is the movie of "All Quiet on the Western Front." It is the most powerful work that the art of the cinema has yet produced. There are action scenes that make previous war films seem tame, and the impressions made by some of its more dramatic moments are nothing less than overwhelming. Readers of the book need not fear a disappointment, for Remarque's story is made...
This plan is but a step toward a general improvement of the Freshman year which is to be carried out while the House Plan is still in the formative stage. When the Freshmen are moved into the Yard other changes are to be made to improve the general instruction of the first year courses...
Three weeks ago Explorer Wilkins took a definite step: petitioned the Navy Department for the O-12, a Wartime submarine, lying out of commission in the Navy's Philadelphia "boneyard." Last week the Navy announced that Wilkins could have the boat, but that he must make haste for it must be destroyed before July 1, 1936, under the terms of the London Naval Parley...
Thus does Derek Walker-Smith, 19, record one brutal incident engendered by the time-honored British public school "fagging" system, in his recently published novel Out of Step. Thoughtful English parents last fortnight had their attention directed to an incident of much more gravity, a far sterner condemnation of fagging...
...step, if it is over taken, must be the antithesis of revolution. It involves placing more power in the hands of the tutor who would be, and actually is now, the only competent authority on what knowledge the student assimilates during the years before the four year-oral examination. It means inculcating into the undergraduate the realization that he is the only one profiting or losing, that he is pursuing culture rather than sixteen credits. Finally, it does offer him a fairer opportunity and a more comprehensive test to display his qualities to the examining board. It involves the departure...