Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...case" against the administration. In his attacks on Wilson he has not once broken the monotony of his dignified invective by a single courteous acknowledgment of the difficulties of the President's position, or of the partial success of his labors. Not once has he risen to the level of thought or action which Mr. Wilson has maintained throughout the campaign...
...optimistic over the result of the Cornell-Harvard game Saturday," he said in addressing the players, "we are far from the level of last season's condition, and the team is not what it should be physically at this time of the year. The late start this year, fully two weeks behind Harvard's get-off, did not do us any good, and the squad has been slow in rounding into shape for the crucial game of the year. I do not consider the eleven I have at this time the equal of the team that defeated Harvard last fall...
...largest measure. In the second place, not only must such a school from the very nature of the case be numerically insignificant, but it seems to be based upon an erroneous pedagogical principle. President Eliot, by pulling up, as he thought, the American college, to a higher or university level, advanced the age of graduation to about twenty-two, and at the same time made the attainment of the college degree a prerequisite to professional or research work. The college thus came to occupy the contradictory position of a university and of something less than a university. The consequences soon...
...obtain the officers necessary to carry out the training. It is not the intention of the War Department to make use of educational institutions in developing military geniuses, but rather to obtain men who, as officers, will be of an average efficiency, and thus preserve the general level of instruction and efficiency throughout the service, both active and reserve...
...question of bringing this branch of the sport up to at least a level of mediocrity, if not of excellence, presents no inherent difficulty. Natural ability in the jumps and weights is not nearly so important a factor as in the running events. Honest effort on the part of reasonably well-conformed men under the direction of efficient coaching is all that is essential...