Word: levels
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...would be difficult, Professor Carpenter said, to give in one lecture a complete account of the rise of ideas among the Hebrews from the animistic level of the earliest period to the lofty conceptions which marked their highest development. This growth was stimulated from various sources, chiefly Persian and Greek. It was controlled by certain passionate religious convictions which were transformed under deep national and personal experiences...
...culture and it matters less what a man learns than how he learns it. The day will come, nay, it is dawning already, when it will be understood that the masterpieces of whatever language are not to be classed by an arbitrary standard, but stand on the same level in virtue of being masterpieces; that thought, imagination and fancy may make even a patois acceptable to scholars; that the poets of all climes and of all ages "sing to one clear harp in divers tones;" and that the masters of prose and the masters of verse in all tongues teach...
...words of Professor Richet "the alliance will establish between the members of the divers universities, professors or students, a union founded upon relations more frequent and consequently more cordial. It will attenuate the differences in scholarship, by securing a certain equivalence or equality of studies, and level the obstacles which now confine the students within their respective countries. This is so much more necessary since, despite the present facilities of roads and telegraph, universities are now less connected than they were in the thirteenth century, when it took months to travel between the universities of Paris and of Bologna...
...past year is also to be noted as the first year in the history of the Medical School in which the salaries of those professors who give their whole time to the school have been placed on a level with the salaries of professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Divinity School...
...make them successful now? As has been said time and time again, such a dinner gives the one chief opportunity in the whole college course for the class to become conscious of itself as a class, and for the different members to meet each other on a common level. Surely ninety-five will regret it, if the dinner is made only a halfsuccess...