Word: levels
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...true that ours is a poor ground. On the contrary, it is one of the best grounds in the country. It is level, as the Yale ground is not. Our team last year did not whine about the Yale ground, through every foot-ball player who was present knows the objections which might have been made...
...also by a shaft from the roof. About ten or twelve feet above the main exercise hall, is suspended the running track, which arrangement will obviate the necessity of having the track in the main hall and will thus allow so much more space for apparatus. On a level with the running track will be the visitors gallery...
...listen to evening lectures on Goethe, Schiller, Herder and Heine, as well as those given so often on the representative authors of France? Will not the authorities take immediate measures to improve so important a department as is the German department. It should be raised at once to a level with the other departments which bring credit to our university, instead of being allowed to linger on in this lackadaisical way, under no responsible management, and giving instruction that is inefficient and unsatisfactory...
...progress in athletic training continues, who can tell how soon Dr. Holmes' imaginary race may become a reality in a contest between the champion eights of Wellesley and Harvard? But the students at Wellesley do not give all their enthusiasm to boating. Near the lake is a large and level field devoted to tennis, where the young women compete in agility and skill. The first tournament took place last fall and developed some excellent players, - who would be more than a match for many of the other sex. Coasting and skating are the prominent out-door sports in winter...
...branches, have been greatly increased. The lower rooms of the building have been fitted up with elaborate apparatus for testing the strength of building material, and the students take a very hearty interest in their work. Every effort to raise the standard of the Scientific School nearer to the level of such institutions as the Institute of Technology, the School of Mines, or the Stevens Institute, is to be praised and encouraged. Our university attracts students from all over the country to its Law and Medical Schools, and we may expect that its Scientific School will some day possess...