Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...losing his brilliant ideal, at her death, and falling into sin, such that he can find Heaven only through Hell. One of the great motifs of the poem lies in this fall of Dante, under the pressure of circumstances, from a high spiritual life to a somewhat lower level. And yet Dante shows his great and characteristic personality in his agony of self-reproach and his honest acknowledgment of his sins, even though not as dreadful as some try to make...
...current issue of the Advocate can hardly be called exciting. Both prose and verse are on that level of mediocrity on which, it seems, a large proportion of undergraduate writing is content to rest. When I had read it through, my professional judgment instinctively marked it with an undistinguished...
...being such a centre. It can with a fair degree of comfort accommodate 85 students, while some music courses contain an enrollment of over 120. The assurance of a new adequate Music Building where Harvard musical traditions may be fitly maintained and raised even to a higher level of fame is a source of congratulation to all Harvard men and in particular all music-lovers...
...arranged as not to give the members of any one team an undue advantage by assigning a subject, the study of which falls within its own department. We feel that this system would arouse a spirit of rivalry among the departments and would raise debating to a higher level than it now occupies. Such a plan has been successfully adopted at Yale and other large universities, and there is no evident reason why it should not succeed here. The CRIMSON makes this suggestion to the debating authorities for what it may be worth, fully realizing that for some reason unseen...
...flat top of the lower portion of the cut stone base around the whole building. The sills of all exterior doors, the entrance steps with landings up to the portico floors, the steps and landing of the rear entrance to the ground story and the base above the pavement level in the light courts are to be constructed of Woodbury, Bothel or other close-grained white, light pink or gray granite. Above this granite foundation the building, on the exterior, will be of limestone and brick. Above the base the columns, band cornices, window sills, keystones, arches, etc., will...