Word: steps
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...look - so full of vindictive hatred - I hope I may never see again on the face of any human being. Bertha noted its reflection in mine, and quickly turned her head. He spoke no word, but beckoned, and she went to him. I felt a mad desire to step between them - that he ought hardly to be trusted with his own daughter, but I could only hold my peace...
...negligence, no record of the last October races has yet appeared in the Gymnasium, and it is time for the Executive Committee of the Boat Club to see that this omission is rectified. It is also proper, in this connection, to remind the Athletic Association that a similar step on its part would add materially to the interest of the Gymnasium, besides supplying a permanent roll from which its records could be taken...
WHEN the Harvard Annex was started it was declared in the most emphatic manner that it was not a step towards co-education, that nothing was intended but a Girls' High School in which the teachers should be Harvard professors. This was by no means a novelty: long before the Annex was dreamed of, Harvard professors had given lessons at private schools in Boston. This was all well enough; professors of course had a right to dispose of their leisure in giving additional instruction, and nothing was thought of the matter. So it was when the Annex was established...
...requiring only twelve hours of electives instead of fourteen. That encouragement should be held out to this plan by any of the Faculty is a matter of congratulation, not only on account of the benefit to the Juniors, but because it shows that there is a prospect of another step from a conservative to a liberal policy. There is no reason for making Juniors take fourteen hours, except that they always have done so. We cannot see why Seniors should take fewer hours than Juniors are obliged to, unless the Faculty confess that the work previous to the Senior year...
...though in no faultfinding spirit, to the manner in which Fine Arts I has to be conducted. Unfortunately, so many students have elected this course that the instructor cannot give as much time to each one as is essential to intelligent progress; and in view of this fact, some step should be taken to make the course equally profitable to all who have elected it for the purpose of getting the best results. To expect a student to wait a half hour for his turn with the instructor without losing his equanimity, to say nothing of the waste of time...