Word: levels
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...institutions cultivate, they inflict a gratuitous injury both on themselves and on the country which they should serve. Their refusal to listen to parents and teachers who ask that the avenues of approach to them may be increased in number, the new roads rising to the same grade or level as the old, would be an indication that a gulf already yawned between them and large bodies of men who, by force of character, intelligence, and practical training are very influential in the modern world...
...stables fourteen ponies. The grounds are about two miles from the square, on the road to Watertown. Yesterday being Decoration Day, a large crowd of both sexes collected along the edge of the grounds to watch the play The grounds consist of a well cut level field about 150 yards long and 75 yards wide. On the right hand side, as you enter, about half way towards the farther goal, there is a small house devoted to dressing-rooms. Very few trees surround the grounds, and in consequence the light is good. The costumes of the players are picturesesque, each...
...lack of interest felt in this country for classical archaeology has been conspicuous. By the establishment of the American School at Athens a great impetus has been given to archaeological study which will soon, it is hoped, put our school on a level with the French and German schools now doing such good work at Athens in their peculiar branch...
...severest punishment which could be inflicted, next to expulsion, was the much dreaded degradation. This, we learn, "consisted in placing a student on the list, in consequence of some offence, below the level to which his father's condition would assign him; and thus declared that he had disgraced his family...
...interest should increase, as its projectors hope, there is no opportunity for more men to play than do at present on account of the very limited extent of the Harvard athletic grounds. If the faculty desire so much that athletics should become more general, only let them purchase or level a few more acres of ground anywhere near the college and they will find that the desired expansion will take place at once. By this resolution the standard which Harvard is to maintain in the future will be decidedly lowered. By force of circumstances we happen to be isolated from...