Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This environment the new Freshman dormitories are designed to furnish. In the first place all the members of the class are to be drawn together on a level basis of mutual acquaintanceship. All men from various localities and countries, and representing different modes of thought and various forms of activity, intermingle and compete with one another. Thus the environment is provided in which can develop at the very beginning of the career of every class all that is best and most worth while in the complexity of college opportunities...
...seats to the field itself is to be through a wide reinforced concrete tunnel made on a slope from the ground outside the embankment to the field; the entrance to the seats is to be made with smaller reinforced concrete tunnels arranged around the stands and running in level from the surrounding grounds and terminating at an aisle about the middle of the height of the stands...
...meetings should be held in the Union. From the stand-point of the men attending the forums the Union is the logical place of meeting, since it is designed as the centre of all such activities. There would be a tendency to put the discussions on a more intimate level if they were held there rather than in one of the University halls. The latter at best are not so pleasant for discussion, while the Union has every facility to promote social intercourse. We believe, moreover, that the movement to the Union would benefit this institution by helping...
...recent report to the Student Council the Committee on Scholarship and Publications has rendered a very pregnant suggestion for raising the level of scholarship among undergraduates. In brief, the committee's plan is to secure an increased interest in scholarship in the Freshman class, and in that way to elevate progressively the scholarship standards of the upper classes. That the problem lies with the Freshman class is shown by an examination of figures showing the percentages in the various classes of men winning academic distinction. Only ten per cent, of last year's Freshman class won positions in the first...
...arises the question: what is a feasible means for raising the level of scholarship in the Freshman class? Now the Committee on Scholarship, after a careful consideration of the facts, has come to the conclusion that a fundamental reason for the low standing of the average Freshman is the feeling that academic distinctions are quite beyond his reach. And in this conclusion the Committee in undoubtedly right. The requirements for admission to first or second group are higher in the case of Freshmen than for members of the three other classes. In support of this difference in distinction requirements...