Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...apparatus has been carried to the branch observatory at Arequipa, near by, where some meteorological work will be continued for an indefinite period. Among the stations which have been abandoned with the successful termination of the investigation, is El Misti, which is situated 19,000 feet above the sea level and is the highest station of its kind in the world...
...deprecate the lowering of the Harvard requirements for admission, but I believe that a set of uniform entrance requirements could be drawn up which Harvard could accept, and still, by determining the number of subjects to be passed and the quality of the preparation required for admission, maintain the level of its own standard unchanged...
...Pierce Building on Holmes Field has now reached the level of the third floor on the south wing, and much of the work o' setting the frame, stone window and door casings, and other finish, has been accomplished...
...printing such a story as "Snakes in Ecclesiastical History" the Advocate again seems to be in danger of falling a bit below its level. The plot is effectively brought out but there is some question as to whether a vivid three paged account of drunkenness does not endanger the standard of refinement which the Advocate has heretofore set for itself...
...hockey rink will be about two feet above the ice, since it was found that last year's fence was too high. There will be no fence at all around the open skating rink. The bottoms have been very carefully rolled and filled in and are now almost perfectly level...