Word: levelizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pathetic sublimities are available. But there would be conscientious objectors who would remonstrate that architecture was being over-emphasized, the certain things could will be omitted from eternal memory, and that the cartoon's place is in the comic strip. To which the humanist could reply that no conservative level had a healthy sense of humor--and that if one is mocked for being indifferent, one may placate the public by being different, thus killing two birds with a single--and over-whelming gargoyle...
...thousand feet above sea level, in La Paz, "Highest Capital in the World," President Hernando Siles of Bolivia was last week insulted...
...deepest mines in the world are in Brazil, South Africa, South India, and Yorkshire, England. The deepest, a gold mine named "Village Deep", and situated in South Africa, in the Penne District, is 7032 feet below the level of the ground. This and many others will be visited by Professor Graton during his year of sojourn. He will visit every mine in the world that is over one mile deep...
...find it necessary to modify our plans in the light of experience. Especially in the management of doctorate study we shall have to work slowly toward the ideal of a more effective selection of candidates with genuinely constructive ability. The idea of professional training for education, on a graduate level and leading to distinctive degrees, is so new that we may have to wait some time before it will be welcomed by the profession as a whole. Meanwhile, if the number of our students is small, we shall at least have the advantage of setting high standards in a simple...
...music. Harvard has even gone so far as to no longer limit membership in her glee club to undergraduates but in the quest of the most polished voices obtainable, has admitted many from the graduate schools. Yale has not gone to this extreme but has decidedly improved the general level of her program with the gradual introduction of more numbers of the classical type...