Word: levels
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gentleman who entered only to oblige the H. A. A., and whose only fault was that he defended himself too well to please his critics; if criticisms are to be made, they should be both temperate and impersonal, else the college publications will fall to as low a level as the daily press. Above all, there is no need of singling out a freshman for especial criticism, when there are three upper ciassmen who are equally capable...
...impression left by Mr. Gericke's first season has been on the whole a favorable one. He has visibly raised the level of the orchestra and inspired it with a unity and solidity which it has not always possessed. We earnestly hope that a similar series of concerts will be given here next year...
...spring board, or from a great elevation, or after striking the ground with his feet three or four times, as in a number of successive jumps, then the story is not so bad. If one must believe that a Greek jumped 55 feet in one leap from the level ground with weights and a run, or else doubt all Greek history, I, for my part, would prefer the latter alternative...
...have emerged, at last, from the dark valley of the semis, and find ourselves to-day once more upon the level and pleasant plain of every-day student life. Life is very endurable now, with the semis just passed, and the finals yet dim in the distance. But let us remember the virtuous resolutions made while frantically struggling to get up four minth's work in a single night,- resolutions to master each day's work as it becomes due. For, slowly, yet very surely, the inevitable finals are creeping on, when once more will "the mourners go about...
...Observatory is built on the summit of Mount Hamilton, a prominence in the Coast Range of California, 4,400 feet above the sea-level, and about 14 miles east of the city of San Jose. The atmospheric conditions of the site are peculiarly favorable to astronomical observations, and with a good man in charge of the observatory, great results may be expected. Let us hope that an astronomor, skilled in his science and enthusiastic in his work, may be chosen for the place; for on him more than on the instruments will the reputation of the observatory depend...