Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...graduate students, undergraduate instruction would practically break down. If during the next five years the number of graduate students in Economics continues to increase at the present rate, the standard of instruction in the undergraduate courses will tend to be raised; whereas if the number should decline to the level of ten years ago, the Department would be unable to provide ade quately for its undergraduate work...
Although no single contribution in the current number of the ADVOCATE stands out clearly above the general level of college journalism, the average is good. (The foregoing sentence was written before the present reviewer had seen the recent criticism of the Monthly in these columns...
...piece of editing this number reaches a high level: as a symptom of what is going on among the undergraduates it is in the highest degree encouraging...
...this country, but of the world, an editorial, and a group of reviews, literary and dramatic. The range and versatility here exhibited should be pondered by those who are apt to think of the life of the undergraduate as overwhelmingly physical and social. In quality, too, the general level is gratifying; there is nothing conspicuously poor, and a good deal that is thoroughly praiseworthy...
...other hand, to the adherents of the "captain supreme" idea, I can do no more than point out a few facts. In years when Harvard crews have been coached by forceful, intelligent and level-headed gentlemen, Harvard captains, many of them of the so-called great ones, have not hesitated to yield the selection...