Word: levels
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...appears more disgraceful than the defeat is the "muckerish" way in which certain undergraduates attempted to win the game by yelling. Yesterday we had occasion to call attention to the evil which was creeping into the class games. Now, in an intercollegiate contest, Harvard has been reduced to the level which has always been the object of scorn and contempt heretofore, and deserves to remain so. It is much to be regretted that, besides those who supported the nine, there were men on the team itself, whose conduct eminently ill-fitted the occasion. The fresh man nine has one thing...
...Australia the mileage cost is $50,000 a mile. In Germany it is $100,000. The $50,000 Australian roads are on a level with poorly equipped American roads...
...Reisner, on the negative, denied that the Dependent Pension bill would have involved an expenditure of $50,000,000 a year, for this would signify that there are now 300,000 Union soldiers who have sunk to the level of pauperism. It is at least as just as the Act of Congress which granted extravagant pensions to the surviving veterans of the Mexican war. It is important for us to remember that the soldiers which the Dependent Pension hill was designed to aid, have to be supported anyhow; it is merely a question whether it shall be done...
Spring is actually close at hand and Holmes' field has almost lost its icy coating. In fact, it is very probable that within a week the field will be ready for use. Jarvis, being on a slightly higher level, is already in fair condition and was used yesterday for the first time. This is a late spring and our teams are heavily handicapped thereby - since all the rival colleges have been practicing out of doors for some time. We are informed that it is within the memory of man (i.e., Tom O'Hara) when Jarvis was in daily...
...first, though it will leave, perhaps, a false impression on the minds of the public. We congratulate the base-ball management of Yale upon the position which they have taken, and assure them of the hearty co-operation of Harvard in placing college base-ball on a higher level than ever before...