Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...snaps", which is as it should be. In the raising of the standards of such courses as Music 4 during the present year, and the removal of English 6 and certain public speaking courses in next year's program, is seen a genuine effort to raise the scholastic level throughout the University which cannot be too highly praised...
...years the effects of the recent World War shall have brought civilization to a level it could not have reached otherwise in that time, the sufferings of millions of individuals do not matter," said Mr. James P. Munroe, President of the Twentieth Century Club, when interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "I am not defending War for its own sake, but only insofar as it is necessary to human evolution...
...past to a select group, but to a far wider and ever widening circle of mankind--at such a time any reforms, suggestions or policies must, to be successful, strike at the root of the matter. Within a short time with, as has already been pointed out, the general level of wealth rising and the prestige of a college degree still unimpaired, the demands on the colleges will be far in advance of anything they have ever previously known. To meet these demands the system of college education must undergo chances. To meet them adequately it must undergo changes that...
...nothing more durable or inspiring than a board walk was ever built with "planks". If the present period is a critical one for American universities the ensuing one will be even more so. With the general level of wealth rising and the prestige of a college degree still unimpaired, the next ten years may bring a horde of candidates for admission to each college in the United States, a horde three times the size of any that now besieges Yale or Harvard...
During the debate, M. Bokanowski, General Reporter of the Finance Committee, likened emotion in Paris caused by the debacle of the franc on Jan. 14 (the date when it reached its lowest level) to that caused by the news of the battle of Chemin des Dames. Loud cries of "What an exaggeration...