Word: levels
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...colleges which six years ago continued to start this excellent institution have earned the gratitude of a large body of men interested in Greek archaeology and Greek literature. Through the earnest efforts of the committee which has conducted the management of the school, it has been placed on a level with the English and French schools which exist in Athens for the pursuit of the same studies. The excellence of the work done by the American students is in every way equal to that done by the others, and is hardly overshadowed by the work of Germany's younger scholars...
...truth-but we let it pass by in silence for the sake of that good feeling which we joined heart and soul in trying to bring about. The manly spirit as displayed by our athletic teams and by the college in general, we think is quite on a "level" with that displayed by Cambridge representatives and the feeling against "muckerism" is fully as strong.-Yale News...
...strife has returned before. True. But now it has not returned to be driven away by any soft words of conciliation. It has come to stay until the spirit of Yale College has risen to a level of manliness high enough to cast its disapproval upon such speeches as that with which Captains Beecher and Peters have favored their friends. The Advocate, in its last number, has some pithy and hard editorials upon the re-appearance of this "muckerism," but we can say that the Advocate has not gone a step too far. Men who would speak as these...
...that this was the cause of their absence. It is only likely that it was the cause. There has been much talk about Harvard's good prospects this year, but if this kind of business continues athletics will do their best to find a lower level than the one they now occupy. No doubt such a task would be difficult but it is within the range of possibility. Many may say that the non-athletic men don't know about such things and had better use their power of speech on a subject with which they are more conversant. This...
...strength) secundum artem. In fact, the novel is sterling throughout. It is good in plot and workmanship, and in the portrayal and conception of character; it is natural and lifelike, and it is interesting. It is all this not now and then merely, but continually, and with an even, level temper which looks as if the writer had kept carefully within the limits of what was positively attainable. One gets an idea, that is to say, that the next novel one may have the good fortune to receive from the same hand will be even better than this...