Word: level
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they thought that their heads were quite level...
...debates which have thus far taken place in the Harvard Union show that the University can support an organization of that kind. But that the interest in the society may be kept at the present level, other inducements than debate pure and simple must be offered. Besides the room for debate, which it is hoped Sever Hall will furnish next year, there is need of a social reading-room, to be kept open in the evening, when one has time to look over the newspapers or reviews. The reading-room now in the hands of the undergraduates has never been...
...great satisfaction, "You should try and find out how much, not how little, the students know." I should have no fear of questions being unreasonable put by a wise, common-sense professor like this, whereas some learned men expect a student to reach in a few months the level of their own mature knowledge. - D. Hack Tuke, F. R. C. P., before the British...
...thought I stood within a level yard...
...Potter, in his able book on Reading, says: "It is nearly an axiom that people will not be better than the books they read." Not better than the books they read? Great Heavens! Do you not tremble for our instructors? Are they to descend at last to the level of the blue book? Are they to be no better than that "wretched heap and hotch-potch of words and ideas"? Alas! what a horrible destiny! But ought they not to be rescued? Ought not the system to be abolished, and our instructors saved? A few more years of this diet...