Word: levels
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...consciousness that the labor involved in a course of training during the coming month will have its reward in the improved play of next year's team, and we feel sure that every player will do his utmost to bring up the standard of our play to the level of that attained at other colleges...
...this tedious mediocrity which has amazed me year after year. In spelling, punctuation, and grammar, some of the essays are a little worse than the mass, and some a great deal better; but in other respects there is dead-level, unvaried by a fresh thought or an individual expression. Almost all the writers use the same common-place vocabulary-a very small one-in the same confused way. One year, after reading 200 or 300 compositions on "The Story of the Tempest," I found myself in such profound ignorance of both plot and characters that I had to read...
...upon the turf, and prepared to give a hearty support to the Cambridge nine. Looking from this point the scene was a very beautiful one, taking in the ground stand with its crowded audience; the long lines of carriages, bright with the blue parasols of their fair occupants; the level turf of the diamond, dotted here and there with crimson or blue clad players, the whole standing out distinctly against back-ground of the clear May sky. Repeated cheers welcomed the appearance of the nines upon the field, doubly repeated when any good play called for commendation...
...long been the custom in Harvard journalism to exercise for bearance and courtesy toward contemporary journals that any violation of the established precedent is all the more noticeable. We sincerely hope that the editorial tone of the Harvard press is not to be allowed to reach the undesirable level which is to be found at some of our sister colleges...
...Swinscoe and Hearst immediately won the favor of the audience by their irresistible humor, and acrobatic movements. Cushing's ballet, in itself a work of art in that line, was made most ludicrous by the gigantic proportions assumed by his body in ballet costume. The low stage, and the level floor of the hall, however, prevented many from seeing the expert dancing. The audience from the very beginning caught the spirit of the performance, and looked upon it, as the actors themselves did, as a mirthful episode in student life...