Word: levels
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...taken part in up to this time has there been such general interest displayed throughout the college as is being shown in the game today. Athletics at Harvard have occupied a position somewhat precarious and uncertain during the past few years. At last, however, they have come to the level which they seem destined to keep for at least a few years. This new position has been marked by the renewed interest taken by the whole college in the work of the team...
...gratifying to know how many men even now visit the grounds. With the present force of fifty men, the field will be finished about the middle of next month. At present they are digging trenches all over the 20 acres, in which the gravel from the now levelled banks is put, while the loam thus thrown up is spread 10 inches thick over the entire surface. The dike is being strengthened against the tide; and the few remaining acres beyond will be gradually filled by college refuse. A few trees have been left, thus breaking the monotony of the level...
...training. He protests against a plan so manifestly unjust to the alumni and to the first graduating class that would include both four and three year men. Moreover, what would be the use of coming to Harvard if the value of its degree were lowered to the level of those of all the second-rate colleges which throng the land...
...room for all the baseball fields or football fields we could possibly use, even if twice as many students attended the university. The embankments along the river keep out the water so that the land that was once marshy is now dry. It has all been laid out nearly level, sloping towards the river just enough to allow the water to run off. Everyone interested in athletics cannot help but renew his thanks to the donor of this ground when, now that it is nearly leveled off, he sees how admirably it will be suited to its purpose...
...prospect of unsatisfactory results in case a dike were built, has a ways deterred them. It has been estimated that to fill in the Longfellow land would cost at least four thousand dollars an acre. This new gift, however, is situated on high ground, four feet above the water level. It accordingly affords ample room for all present development and at the some time it will be easy gradually to extend quarters by means of dumpings, so that eventually all the Longfellow land will be filled in without the expense of doing it immediately. Therefore within twenty or thirty years...