Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What I consider more important than the new record is the significant fact that this was the first distance soaring flight in America made from winch tow in level country...
...that equality of opportunity is a myth, that there is a "conspiracy of forces that tends to keep certain groups more or less permanently submerged." It found the chances were 3 to i that the son of a laborer will not rise to a job on the white-collar level...
...composition courses in the field are fairly highly recommended, A-2 most highly, but the marks in them are on an unfairly high level when compared with other courses in the same field. A "B" necessitates only a little occasional effort. As for the public speaking courses there is more censure than praise, although the energy of Professor Packard was lauded in getting this part of the field in running order...
Last Eastern threat to Crimson supremacy in eight-oared sprinting trailed nearly two lengths in the Bollesmen's wake, as a level-headed Varsity eight crushed Columbia's feeble bid for victory on the tide-swept Harlem last Saturday...
President Conant, glooms Porter Sargent, started out as Harvard's head "with the naivete and boldness of a scientist," but soon "sacred cows were jostled'' and today Conant has subsided "to the dead level of mass alumni opinion." Sprightly, 66-year-old Porter Sargent criticizes President Conant most severely for keeping as head of Harvard's sociology department Pitirim Alexandrovitch Sorokin, whom he calls a pseudo-scientist, a defeatist and a reactionary. "Harvard is maintaining him in a position of influence where he is misguiding and frustrating American youth. . . . The sociology department is the White Russian...