Word: level
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peat thumb-nail sketch of His Excellency's Intellectual fibre, as well as the crude educational level of Tennessee, is drawn later by his own equivocal words--"After a careful examination, I can find nothing of consequence in the books now being taught in our schools which this bill would interfere with in the slightest manner. Therefore, it will not put our teachers in any jeopardy. Probably the law will never be applied. It may not be sufficiently definite to permit of any specific application or enforcement. Nobody believes that it is going to be an active statute...
...Raised Level of Graduate Schools...
President Eliot's accomplishments during his 40-year administration, which was the longest in the history of the University, are well known. He raised the academic standards of the graduate schools in the University from a level lower than that of the college, to a level higher than that of the college; he established the necessity of examinations for admission to college, he greatly widened and strengthened the elective system; and almost 40 years ago he abolished compulsory chapel...
...nimble limbs, modish good looks. The diligent Sigmund Romberg has drained off another resonant score to match his The Student Prince (TiME, Dec. 15). There is a military chorus to boom close harmony and rumble rifles. Florenz Ziegfeld has window-dressed the scenes far above the usual art-calendar level. The book has been only partially translated from the lumbering German. It would lose momentum but for Errol's hind legs...
...than tend to lead one into narrowness from the lack of thought gives such ends as truth. Cannot sports for sports sake accomplish more than sports for the many other motives pressing them on? And if sports or any other outside activity were to be placed on such a level as to dominate great over-emphasis, should not greater "ewards for all, both mentally and physically, socially and morally be forth-coming...