Word: levels
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chair of an upper cassman. The plan is certainly an admirable one and deserves to be handed down to each succeeding freshman class. Too often in the past these meetings have been characterized by the wildest confusion, and the elections have in consequence been reduced to the level of drawings in a lottery. By the method of yesterday, however, something like order was assured, and the freshmen were thus allowed to use at least some degree of discretion in their proceedings. We congratulate the author of this idea for his thoughtfulness, and express the sincere hope that this plan...
...careless manager. But if a game was necessary, it should have been played in a straight-forward, manly way. That the captain of the nine should adopt the policy of delaying the game, of resorting to trickery, unknown to our college teams before, and only on the level of professionalism, is utterly disgraceful and dishonorable, if not cowardly. If the game was begun, it should have been played in earnest. Fair defeat is no disgrace, far from it, but trickery and "muckerism" should never come into college athletics...
...knowledge of English, but can readily solve mathematical problems if the conditions are not too complicated. In conclusion the lecturer said that there is no fear that those Indians, who have been carefully educated in the east, will, on returning to their tribes, fall back to their original level...
...southwest corner of the quadrangle, where the ground slopes rapidly to the south and to the west, thereby offering advantages which the architect has not failed to make use of. Thus the reading-room, which is entered from the grounds on the east side, is on a level with the fourth floor of the west stack-room, which has seven stacks each seven feet high; the delivery desk being then at the vertical middle of the stack. The stack is practically one of four stories...
...Lick Observatory is to have a rival nearly 1000 feet higher than Mt. Hamilton, and situated in Colorado, at an elevation of nearly 5,000 feet above the sea level. The new observatory will be attached to the University of Colorado...