Word: level
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...arts faculty will thus be co-ordinate with the Law, Mines and Political Science faculties, and if this scheme is carried out and the proposed faculty of Philology, Philosophy and Fine Arts established, Columbia, the trustees think, will be on the same level as the German universities...
...work on Hastings Hall is being carried forward as rapidly as possible and already the building has been finished on the outside to the level of the plates at the eaves. If the weather continues mild, it will be roofed in this fall, and steam heat put in. If this can be done, the work of laying the terra cotta floor arches and other inside work will be carried on all winter. In this case the building will be ready for occupancy next fall, otherwise it will not be ready for another year...
...temporary observatory is to be built at a town called the Willows, about two hundred miles north of Sacramento, and from two to three hundred feet above the level...
...dastardly blow he has attempted to strike at the cause of higher learning. We include in our condemnation the editors of the North American Review because they have opened their columns to an article such as this. The magazine has been brought from its high place to the level of the most notorious metropolitan sporting papers. we include in our condemnation city papers like the Boston Evening Record, which devote their columns to the uses of sensationalism in the hope that a few more pennies may be drawn into their coffers...
...hands, upon which so much stress is often laid, was a Jewish custom used in inaugurating both civil and religious officers. The universal verdict of scholars is that episcopacy arose from presbytery. In the early anglican church no effort was made to put the biship on a higher level than the rest of the priesthood, and it was even admitted that the church had the right to abolish bishop if expedient. It was only in later times that that tyrannical prelacy was established, to escape which our Puritan ancestors left England...