Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...apply standards similar to those which govern the award of Rhodes Scholarships: character, scholarship, athletic ability, and promise of future usefulness. If we as almuni were instrumental in submitting to the Committee applicants measuring up to its standards, we need not fear that Harvard may sink to the level of the University of Chicago...
Extension of joint instruction from the upperclass level, where it is now in effect, to the rest of the College's courses was first recommended by vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences January 10. It was then approved by the Harvard Corporation, the Radcliffe Trustees, and finally by the Overseers...
...them down with coarse sandpaper. Acne's disfigurement, Dr. McEvitt reported to the Journal of the American Medical Association, is bad enough for men, but tragic for women. It results simply from "lights and shadows playing on an uneven surface." Acids and dry ice have been used to level the skin; so have mechanical devices such as scalpel blades, razor blades, needles grouped like a currycomb, rough stones, disks and brushes...
...same year Mormon Church President Brigham Young incorporated the University of Deseret (Mormon name for the Utah territory), to "teach all nations all useful arts and sciences" with "instruction . . . brought to the level of the laboring classes...
...issued at all is a clear indication that the ecumenical movement has begun to make its influence felt among the clergy and laity of the Roman Catholic Church. We can only rejoice that such is the case." But he noted with regret that the directive "remains below the level reached by certain members of the Roman Catholic hierarchy . . . Christians outside the Roman communion should continue to pray that the Roman Catholic Church may be led to a wider and deeper conception of Christian unity...