Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Allogheny College, in experimenting with the re-education of its alumni, will open all its lectures and classes to graduates for a week without charge. Though only an experiment, which time alone can evaluate, it is distinctly an interesting and progressive step. Not to such lengths as Allegheny, other colleges have in one way or another supplied graduates with information through bibliographies, graduate magazines and bulletins, or by pamphlets reporting recent educational developments in colleges and technical schools...
With the sending of National Guardsmen into the Taylorville strike area in Illinois, another step is taken along the road that led to the sordid history of Harlan and Bell Counties. The circumstances are substantially the same: miners refuse to work for oppressively low wages; owners, faced with a labor crisis at their own boom period, hire substitutes, who are attacked and prevented from entering the shafts; as a last resort the militia is evoked to "protect lives and property...
...John Brown's Body' [by Stephen Vincent Benét] was a step in the right direction. I've read it once and I'm reading it again. But it's too long to do what I mean. You can't thrill people in 300 pages. Three hundred lines is about the limit. Kipling's 'Recessional' really did something to England when it was published. Let me know if you find any great poems lying around...
...centralization of Alumni affairs in Wadsworth House is an encouraging forward step for the largest but least organized body of the University. Hitherto scattered about at random, the main offices of the Alumni, except for the Bulletin and the Directory, which is really a part of the University, are now united in one building. Not only will this be a great convenience for these actively engaged in the offices; it will also simplify any dealings of outsiders with them...
...neighbor in order to make money to pay the landlady. And there are other provisions as absurd. All told, they would affect so few as not to be worth a protest were it not for the implications or for the immediate inconveniences caused by taking the step without adequate warning to those who are already here or on the way. As Dr. Cooper, the United States Commissioner of Education, has stated: "The whole purpose of student exchange and of the granting of non-quota status to allen students, which is the encouragement of international good-will, is interfered with...