Word: steps
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...minds of the faculty committees when the subject of annuals, that great bugbear of Williams, was under discussion. But even if this organization had exerted no influence, even if its sphere of action were smaller than at present, it is still an excellent institution, inasmuch as it is a step in the right direction, a beginning of a growth...
...twelve years from 1625 to 1637, John Harvard had lost his father, two step-fathers, his mother and two brothers, and almost the whole family property had fallen to him. He appears to have been the only scholar in the family, although his brother Thomas seems to have signed his name to his will. His father and mother both made their marks. The whole family connection were tradespeople, but his mother by her marriage came into possession of property enough to give a college education to her oldest son. The education of that one delicate youth has had far reaching...
...some time the authorities of Yale college have been considering a change in the appointment of commencement speakers. It is intended to abolish the ancient institutions of salutatory and valedictory addresses. The first step has already been taken in the abolition of the Latin salutatory. This is again an advance in the direction of progress. An institution which has long ceased to be useful, except in these colleges which still retain the old prescribed system can hardly be necessary and should at once give way before the new order of college study. In a system which has abolished that course...
...altogether unusual emergencies. If there could be but one crime, "behavior disgraceful to the college," and one punishment, expulsion, that would, it seems to me, be the ideal state of things. But it is obvious that such a consummation will have to be reached, if it ever is reached, step by step; and between now and then the students will have to learn to deal with conduct in each other of which they disapprove, in a way of which we have now hardly a foretaste. Public opinion in Harvard College is to-day omnipotent in matters of outward form, dress...
...games played on Saturday last settled the question of the destination of the championship pennant for 1885. While Harvard lengthened its lead by scoring its eighth successive victory, Yale, our most dangerous rival, fell one step more to the rear by dropping a game to Princeton. But while we cannot refrain from a feeling akin to relief that all uncertainty is now removed, we yet can congratulate ourselves upon the fact that Harvard will be indebted for the championship to no other college, for the Harvard nine of 1885 is going to surpass the records of all the colleges...