Word: levels
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...place it would lead to a better, more thorough knowledge of some of the famous old playwrights than the average Harvard student now has; and, as we stated before, it would promote the study of elocution, the art of good delivery, of proper gesticulation to a higher and broader level than they hold to-day in the University. Then the association would materially aid the athletic organizations in a financial way. To quote from our columns of yesterday...
...vases of his time. Afterwards Lysippe made a lighter canon of more slender proportions. In its turn this figure was used for all ornamental purposes. All these representations of athletes were realistic, and if they had not led to ideal figures, Greek Art could not have approached its highest level. The danger that the artist should be engrossed in the real was subverted by the ideal in the figures of the gods. It was not until the athletic games became ridiculous and tainted with professionalism that they lost their hold on Greek...
...room is spanned by trusses, which serve, in addition to carrying the roof, to support the gymnastic apparatus, such as ladders, trapezes, rings, etc., besides the running track, which is suspended from them, and is twenty laps to the mile. The small rooms on this floor have ceilings level with the bottom of the running track, the space above being used to form belvideres or loggias, which are open to the outer air on the street, and on the court through colonnades. Each measures twenty by twenty-eight feet, and they are intended to be used as out-door rooms...
...several more cold snaps before the spring really opens, the cold waves will not last long. There has been much discussion of the matter of flooding Holmes field for skating purposes. That the plan proposed is quite feasible, there is no doubt. The field is nearly, if not quite, level, and not more than an average depth of six inches of water would be needed to cover the whole available surface. This water would be furnished by the city at a low price - two cents per hundred gallons - so that the cost of flooding would be small. The apparently serious...
...strong working force of scholars; and ultimately resulting in "turning over to the colleges a large part of the teaching now done in our undergraduate department, and thus generally enabling us to give the greater part of our resources to students who in their training were above the level of the two lower classes in that department." In conclusion, Mr. Shaler refers to the English system, by which "many of the secondary schools of that country have in their possession presentations and scholarships which enable youths who win them to defray in part, or wholly, their education at either Oxford...