Word: level
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Catton is making a strong effort to put his men into shape early this year and to get lacrosse back to the level of the championship teams which represented the University before 1913. As a result he has ordered practice earlier than usual...
...team. Although weak in receiving passes, he is fast, shifty, and has an accurate aim for baskets. Tyson has recovered his early season form at center, and his injured ankles are now recovered. Feiring and Chase compose the defense, although the former needs practice to bring him to the level of the others. As a whole, the team has improved remarkably in team work and spirit, even considering the three defeats last week. The weakness shown at Trinity of the player's inability to cover their opponents has been eliminated, and also the former tendency of a man to hold...
...other times Gorky cannot reconcile this god-like side with his coarse peasant brutality or his willingness to lower himself to the level of other men. "Sometimes he seems conceited and intolerant like a Volga preacher, and this is terrible in a man who is the sounding bell of the world." If Tolstoy had let him, Gorky would have worshipped him; as it was he feared, despised, worshipped all at once, but fundamentally he was ever somewhat overawed by the realization that Tolstoy was a genius and a superman. "I saw him once as perhaps no one has ever seen...
...Minor Sports" merits consideration. At a time when general participation in athletic sports is greater than it has probably been in the history of the American college, and when the physical fitness of college men is above the level ever before achieved, it is significant that everywhere there is evidence of further, striving for fitness. The insistence on the part of college men that the emphasis on sports in college be placed on those which fit men for a permanent life of physical activity is one of the most wholesome sings in the whole discussion of athletics...
Right here near at home, at the University of Illinois, under Lawrence Erb, music credits are beginning to find their academic level. Much of the absurd prejudice against music in our universities has been due to impractical plans offered by incompetents. With the new order of progressive music educators, invading our educational system from the public schools to our higher university music is at last winning its place as a study that rounds out an otherwise incomplete educative scheme...