Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is only one way of getting this registration business done quickly and painlessly. The first step in the reform is to give the axe to the December study cards, which have to be largely rewritten after the student tries his courses in February. The undergraduates should be given, as they are, two weeks to sample their courses, and the last three days of this time should be set aside for one and final registration. On these days should come a public proclamation of the times and places for seeing the faculty. Only some clear-cut plan like this will...
Expectation that the examination might be extended to the general public was not confirmed last night. It is understood, however, that the unusual general interest in the Prize, as indicated by distribution of 3600 reading lists outside the College, might lead to that step...
...happy combination of the theoretical and the practical aspects of training is the only medium whereby effective management of the many branches of government may be achieved. Civil Service examinations in many of the lower brackets are a step towards putting positions which require knowledge and training in one specific field in the hands of those who possess them. The Littauer School proposes not to replace these, nor even to give the training necessary to pass them, and it is designed neither to supply theoretical and general education, nor to omit these from its curriculum...
...take the last step, and the hardest one, you have to have a certain insanity born in you. Perhaps 'genius' is a better word. It's a certain inspirational spark...
...service departments of the University in the fiscal year 1935-1936, only $63,883 remained as surplus. If wages at Harvard were raised materially, the point would soon be reached where the tuition and meal-rates of each student would have to be raised also. This is a step that may have to be taken in the very near future, but the fact remains that of and by itself the University is not over-affluent, as its funds are restricted, and it is not so wealthy that it may meet all demands made upon it, without putting pressure upon...