Word: levels
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With food prices at their present disheartening level we are inclined to grasp at every ray of hope. So our imaginations begin to work overtime when we read Professor Osterhout's announcement that sugar and fats can now be made from suck simple beginnings as sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water...
...Continent. This indifference has manifested itself in what often amounts to popular resistance toward all but the most rudimentary of general educational training, and at the same time has, as we too are aware, kept down the salaries of school-teachers and college instructors to a shamefully inadequate level. This is chiefly true in the schools, both public and private, in which able and qualified men are only driven to accept so low a stipend as the school-teacher's because of physical infirmity or failure in business or other professional fields...
...Even its enforcement has already been tried and disapproved of by the people generally, such a repeal would create a dangerous rift in the popular respect for organic law. The Constitution of the United States, our national rock of strength, would sink in popular esteem to the comparatively fallible level of certain state constitutions and ordinary statutory laws. Besides this it would cost endless time and discussion on the part of Congress, State Legislatures, and responsible individuals, at a time when all energies should be bent toward reconstruction, and a resumption of the ways of peace...
...good from these activities does not generally enter a student's head until long after he has graduated from college. Every undergraduate activity that is worth while has to be bought at the price of a long and strenuous competition. This competition is what lifts these activities from the level of social amusements to training of the highest order, the enormous value of which will become apparent as soon as the student is turned loose upon the world and is required to face it. The present movement at Yale will so lower the standard of these competitions that a great...
...fiction and as good verse as the College has been offered in a long time. It has the ear-marks of a successful literary paper. But the editors, who fail to make themselves known, have lowered their standard in the story entitled. "The New Romance" to a most unworthy level. They must avoid such crudities if they aspire truly to represent the University...