Word: steps
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...comparatively recent establishment of a Schools Examination Board at Harvard was an important step towards improving the condition of schools. For the object of this Board is to examine the work of instruction in any public or private school which is of a grade to prepare students for Harvard College. This examination can be directed over the whole work of the school or over such special parts as may desire it; and as it deals with the organization and methods of instruction of the Schools as well as the character of the work in each study, such an investigation would...
...they said nothing in the meeting about resigning. Cornell sent in an application for admission to the Association, but the application was laid on the table to be brought up at another meeting. It was said at the time that in case the University of Pennsylvania resigned Cornell would step in to fill the vacancy...
...England Ball League has taken an important step, and put the pitcher back eight feet, making the distance to the home plate 58 feet...
...seemed only right that we should step in now and, by contributing this comparatively small sum, take some part in raising the funds necessary to complete this field which Colonel Higginson has given us. We shall never be able to express adequately our gratitude to him for his generosity and kindness in giving us this large field for athletic sports. Jarvis and Holmes and Norton are fast failing to answer the demands made upon them and Soldiers' Field could not have come to us at a more opportune moment. During the past year and a half the field has been...
...This step is in many ways advisable The duties of a manager of a college team have increased so much during the last few years that the time is not far distant when it will be expedient, if not necessary, for the larger colleges at least, to have a man of experience and mature judgment to look out for the interests of the athletic teams. His duties might include the entire management of the team or only that part which pertained to financial maters. Which of these two courses would be the wiser to pursue, each college would have...