Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...papers are well enough known to require no remark. But it is due to the Advocate to praise its high standard of verse. Its verses, particularly those of A. M. L. and L. E. G., are of high poetic level, aiming beyond the ordinary collegian muse. We are not overpraising when we say that the "Mari Magno" in the first number this fall is the prettiest bit of verse we have met with in this review. The wonted dignified conservatism of the Advocate is as prevalent in its verses as in its editorials, and sets it off in a distinct...
...exchange, in commenting upon the advantages to be derived from an Inter collegiate Press Association, mentioned prominently the raising of college journalism to a higher level and tone. We agree heartily, with our contemporary in this, and suggest the News as the one most needing the reform, if it is not already too low to be beyond the hope of recovery. - [Nassan...
...Dresler of Columbia College says that he thinks that if girls and boys were fellow students in college the girls would sink to the level of the boys rather than raise them to the lofty heights upon which they themselves presumably abide, and he cites the Vassar tendency to imitate Harvard and Yale as evidence of the truth of his statement, mentioning hotel dinners with toasts and responses as especially worthy of condemnation. Possibly, if the boys and girls were in the same institution, the latter would content themselves with giving five-o'clock tea parties and similar entertainments...
...Lick Observatory, in California, is well under way. It is on Mount Hamilton, thirteen miles from San Jose, and nearly 4,500 feet above sea level, with an unobstructed view of the heavens, except a small part of the northeastern horizon, shut out from view by a neighboring mountain peak. There are to be two domes, in one of which a twelve-inch equatorial telescope is now erected. The other is to contain the great thirty-six-inch telescope, the glasses for which are now being ground at Cambridgeport, Mass. The observatory is of the most substantial character, and will...
...other colleges on the same plane brought applications from all parts of the country, graduates of Williams, Ann Arbor, Yale, University of New Brunswick, Kentucky Military Institute, and other schools of all sizes. But only a few, those coming from Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, etc., were recognized as on a level with the Harvard graduates, the others being told that their degrees bore evidence of the fact that their training was about sufficient to rank them with the present Harvard freshmen. - [N. Y. Post...