Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...equipment; it cannot secure and retain teachers who possess scholarship, cultivation, and teaching power commensurate with the work they have to do; it cannot provide the skilled supervision needed to maintain the school buildings and their equipment in a satisfactory condition, and the teaching force at a high level of efficiency...
...October number of the Monthly sets a high standard for the new volume. Without being in any sense abstruse, the articles are of high level and present literary criticism in a most attractive form...
...year in the numbers of those who were taken has made larger quarters necessary. Makonikey is a very convenient starting place for surveying practice as the land rises near the shore high enough to give good locations for triangulation stations. With the sea so close by, the mean sea level is easily obtained...
Three courses of practical work were carried on this summer, an elementary course in plane surveying and two advanced courses in railroad and geodetic surveying. The freshman course, covering the full seven weeks of the period in camp, was spent in running level lines, making chain, azimuth and compass surveys, laying out mining claims, taking soundings, and in plotting the country by the plane table, and transit and stadia methods. Besides the field work a day or two was set aside every week for computing and drawing maps...
...does not get in his power in a very effective way and Hartwell at bow is a bit unsteady in watermanship, but like the other men in the boat both have shown much improvement since the beginning of the season. The second Weld crew is very nearly on a level with the first and should give them a hard race. Greenough at stroke is one of the best men now on the river...