Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Mansfield's. The others, in fact, suggest something of the evils which will result when individuality is no more. There are three book reviews, conventionally sane and sound, except that a good many readers will question whether "Mr. Galsworthy's Justice' as a whole falls below the dramatic level of the 'Eldest Son.'" There is a conventionally humorous consideration of that time-honored subject, "Cambridge Weather." There is a conventional undergraduate story, "The Flame," the heroine of which is like "the changing pastel tones" of the "warm amber of a Virginia sunset"--"soft, delicate, and passionless." And there...
...Brooks Adams '70 was the first speaker. He emphasized the vitalness of the preparedness movement, defining preparedness as "the raising the level of national thought so that a nation can control its situation at a given moment...
...present employed in a study of the relation of the Zeeman effect to spectral series. The central portion of the basement is devoted to storage and to a number of small research rooms used by Professor Davis and his students. The southwestern part of the same level is occupied by an optical laboratory. In the northwestern portion, Professor Bridgman carries on his well-known researches on phenomena at high pressures. In a vault under the western end of the building, Professor Sabine conducts those investigations on sound which have so largely helped to establish the scientific reputation of the Laboratory...
...democratic of our great universities in America; the Harvard, where any poor boy without wealth or social distinction can go, trusting only in the ambition of an honest heart and noble purpose, relying only on his own brain, character and ability, can meet all classes on the common, equal level of privilege and opportunity; be treated as a brother and equal; and thus become inspired with the noblest impulses that can thrill the human soul--the ambition to lift up his head in the sunlight of hope and thank God and take on new courage...
Another innovation which the Sodality has introduced is the appointment of Modest Eugene Alloo, of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, as conductor. Under Mr. Alloo's conductorship the Sodality hopes to give a concert which will be on a level with those given by Mr. Whiting...