Word: levels
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...feeling that it was not really a college institution but only a private enterprise, little interest has been taken by the students in its welfare. It is hoped that putting it in the hands of the students will establish it on a firmer foundation and raise it to a level of the best college papers...
...glacial sand plains about Boston were deposited beneath the level of the sea, at a time of submergence of the land...
...should be harder so that the best and only the best material is obtained. This is the first and apparently the greatest change needed. When this is made and divers others and the Union is imbued with more life and spirit, it can expect to stand on a higher level than it does...
...lower its stadards. Thus far it has resisted all such attempts at change and shows no sign of yielding. It takes the stand that in education nothing is worth having which is easy to get and is seriously thinking of raising its tuition fee, thus putting itself on a level in this respect with the other departments of the university...
...they are at present, they will be lengthened out more in the shape of an ellipse. What is known as a spiral curve is to be made. On the curves the track will be broadened and raised on the outer edge to a height of three feet above the level. All the best running tracks are now made in this way and it is expected that the speed of the track will be considerably increased. The work has already been laid out by the engineers and begun so that there need be no interference with the training next spring...