Word: levels
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...careful estimate of the great indifference of the human race towards religion, the pagan armies of the mighty Roman Empire which must be overcome, but the little band of twelve did what they could from year to year until gradually the mountains crumbled away and the road lay level before them to the converting of the world...
Such then is the impression which has been made throughout the country by this effort to reduce athletics to their proper level. A more propitious state of affairs could not be desired. The college world is evidently willing to be influenced by reforms which are beyond a doubt instituted wholly from unselfish feelings and for the sake of the future of college sports. We cannot expect any further results than this at present. Harvard and Yale have practically united on an issue; they have taken their first steps and will be closely watched to see how well their theories...
Criticism has tended to strengthen the faith of mankind in God. Behind the Bible stands Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Christ makes the Bible what it has been to man and without him it sinks to the level of the world's literature. Our faith rests not on the silence of the critics, for they are never silent, but on the Christ who is revealed to us, whose word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path...
...They themselves cannot make rules which shall check their ardor and the athletic contests are so fascinating that the students have no mind to move against them; it is well, then, that older heads have interfered, with a set of rules which will bring athletics down to their proper level. The sooner the students learn that athletics are not the chief aim of the University and that the University is not small or great as it loses or wins athletic contests, the sooner they will show sound sense in the matter. The new rules will preclude the possibility...
Some of the paintings of our time may rise to as high a level as those of the Renaissance, but the art of that time was on the whole above us. Though we may laugh at the simplicity of some of the early masters, its effect on our own style has been marked. Few, if any, modern artists have succeeded in reproducing...