Word: level
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elements that can defeat the best intended and most soundly constructed program. It is up to the Commission to enlist the aid of educators and institutions, business, press, and radio, and all interested citizens in convincing these voices of the past that a challenge exists above and beyond the level of private interest that must...
...constitute a course. Evidence supporting this view can be drawn from the increased reliance on such crutches as "Hymarx," not because they contain the facts about a course, but because they present it as an integrated unit. This lack of organization can also be found at the next level--the field of concentration. A student takes a number of courses in a given field, which may cover an extremely broad area of knowledge. If the student himself does not find some method of relating this conglomeration of courses, they will remain as disembodied entities...
...member of '63, I object to the level upon which many candidates for our Smoker Committee are conducting their campaigns. By making sex their slogan, they are degrading what can be a clean and memorable evening of fun into an event which any of us would be ashamed to have our parents attend. Whether these candidates would be able to carry out their programs or not. I object to the low character which they are trying to give to our Freshman Smoker. These candidates are basing their programs not on now and original ideas with which to make the Smoker...
...first place, only 240 of the February graduates will be leaving from the Houses. And in the second place, the House Masters, conservative as always, have decided that now is the appropriate moment to retrench their room quotas to last year's level. So they have sliced 200 of the 240 February vacancies off the list, claiming that filling them again would "overcrowd" their House residents. The real value behind such a decision may be debatable-but then probably few House Masters have noticed the crowding that has been going on in Cleverly, Dudley, and other such outlying districts. Using...
...foul" when he meant a "penalty." Said Pollock: "The English language is used in one way in formal writing, in another way in pulpit oratory ... in the courtroom ... in private conversation . . in the ballpark [and] the public forum . . . The students need to learn the appropriate word in the appropriate level of usage...