Word: levels
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Weld.FOR CLASS DAY. - To let, within one hundred yards of college grounds, two or three large rooms, and kitchen - two covered piazzas, one 12 by 40 feet; shaded, level lawn. Especially adapted for a class Day afternoon tea. Apply...
...understand of what our eyes are capable It is a curious fact in vision that we cannot be sure that we tell that which we see, because our reason takes part in what we observe. In order to find the points of the compass we must first find a level surface and then by the arrangement of angles we must find the zenith of the sky. A single point however does not help us, and another must be obtained. Looking to the north we can find stars forming circles, and as we go farther north we find the circles growing...
...university standard, but rid it of its present objectionable features. However, with the undergraduate rule in the precarious position it now holds, it seems a questionable policy, for those who have of their own free will adopted it, to try to drag others down to their own level. We think that the athletic spirit at Yale must be too sportsmanlike to allow the baseball games to fall through because Yale has, by her own deliberate action, weakened her teams and their chances of winning. If this were not the case, Yale "grit" would soon become a by-word. However...
...make this thing a success, Ninety-four should turn out in a body and let its class loyalty be known. Every effort will be made to have the dinner a thoroughly unpartisan affair. For the time being, at least, all will meet on a common level and the grouping of men by cliques will be avoided as far as possible. The committee is anxious that a feeling of comradeship should prevade the dinner. At no time in the history of the class has Ninety-four had a chance to unite as one body, with one interest. This dinner should...
...class in all the four years of college life meets together in anything like social relations. It is the one unifying force; the one opportunity before class day for men to put aside all the barriers which divide the class into endless cliques and to meet on a common level. While we may not regret on the whole that class feeling is not to-day of the same strength and character which was common to classes of fifty years ago, still there are a few old customs like the junior dinner which we can well cling to. We hope...