Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meet marks another step forward in the Harvard athletic program and proves again that Director of Athletics Bingham is doing his best to keep Harvard in friendly athletic relations with as many college as possible. --BY TIME...
...first conception of the universe was a geocentric one, and in the sixteenth century Copernicus made the first great step in astronomical research by overturning this old theory in favor of a heliocentric one which held that the earth and the planets went around the sun. In 1902, a man named Kapteyn put forth the theory that the sun was the center of things and that the stars were scattered about it. This Kapteyn Universe, as it was called, was in good standing till 1917 when Dr. Shapley found that we were not the center of things after...
...first step in his discovery came when by examination of the globular clusters he discovered that the stars about us extended much farther into space than we had previously thought, and that most of the farthest of them were on one side of us. This led him to believe that we were not the center of the universe, but that we were, on the contrary, off center, and that the Milky Way was so full of stars because we were looking through the center. So the Shapley system, or the galactic system, as it is called, held that we were...
...word is not quite clear, but Professor Rogers very evidently feels that a serious situation of some kind exists among colleges in general, and at Harvard in particular. He speaks of a "breakdown in the social organization" and although he implies his belief that the House Plan is a step in the right direction and not altogether false, yet he says it is plainly "artificial". In the first place it violates a Harvard tradition not necessarily a good one but nevertheless a tradition--of individualism. In the second place, a system of fraternities is the only real solution anyhow. Thirdly...