Word: leveler
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...Princeton men played under disadvantages in not being accustomed to level ground and feeling strange in the presence of gentlemen. They could not have failed to notice the contrast between our treatment of their Nine and their treatment of ours. Their fine plays, when discoverable, were received with as great applause as were those of our own Nine, and they received that courtesy always due to strangers...
Lying to the Faculty cannot injure the Faculty, for it, being a corporation, has no soul, and therefore is incapable of moral harm. It does not injure the individual, but on the contrary puts him, in the true spirit of democracy, on a level with his brothers who spread a veil before the glaring light of truth for fear of injury to their eyes. The person who tells the truth to the Faculty suffers yet another moral injury, for, seeing himself suffering for the same thing for which others escape scot-free, he loses his sense of immutable justice...
...could n't exactly save this aspiring rhymer, we'd do our level best to cure...
...tree, while at "level" and "sight...
...supposition that "antecedents" is synonymous with "ancestry" is mistaken. In using the former word, I referred to circumstances and not to persons, and I think that even my opponent will allow the value of antecedents of this kind. He will admit that education raises a man above the level of his ignorant fellows; and he will hardly deny that a person who has always been surrounded by cultivated and refined people has a presumptive advantage over one whose life has been passed with the comparatively uneducated classes...