Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...birth of the Graduate School of Applied Science. Following the example set by the Faculties of Law and Medicine, the founders of the new institution aimed to place it in the front rank. An opportunity was provided when the McKay bequest became available last January, and the first step towards the desired expansion was made with the appointment of Professors Swain and Clifford from the Institute of Technology. Professor Swain, whose reputation as an engineer is national, will deliver in the Union this evening the fourth in the series of lectures on the professions. He is worth hearing...
...George R. Parkin, the administrative head of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, in which he explains that students from the United States who have passed the qualifying examinations in Latin and mathematics shall be eligible, even though they may not have passed in Greek. The trustees have taken this step in order to bring the scholarship within the reach of students of marked ability who have not prepared in Greek...
...adversaries may feel that this step is proposed in order to get more winning teams, but this is not the case, as is shown by the fact that practically no good athletes prefer to discard their sports for professional studies. It is simply felt that such a harmful rule should be changed into a better one. The desire to be fair to our opponents has been carried too far, and a regulation has been made which is unfair to the more diligent of our own undergraduates...
...appointments to all the diplomatic offices, but his choice has to be passed by the senate. Since President McKinley's administration men have been appointed who have had previous training, and in Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, and Japan a strict preparation is required of each candidate. These men advance step by step through the different grades of the profession...
...Step, "La Sorella...