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...RIDE THEM? High-rank surfers rave about the flex; they can be custom shaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surfing's New Wave | 7/17/2006 | See Source »

...Scrutiny, Feb. 1, 1995) parades in front of the reader a handful of Asian Americans who are ostensibly "breaking the mold," almost as a novel zoological phenomenon. In particular, he contrasts the prevalent pre-med image of Asian Americans with the exciting new venues that they find themselves in: high-rank campus publishing, student businesses and--of all impressive things--the Undergraduate Council...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Pre-Meds: It's in the Genes | 2/4/1995 | See Source »

...whom seven prepared for college at schools in the above list. If it is assumed that each of the institutions enumerated sends ten men a year to Harvard, then their graduates number but one scholar to every 30 men. This is a meagre proportion of high-rank students, when it is considered that about one-tenth of all the upperclassmen are annually awarded scholarships...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLARSHIP BY SCHOOLS | 12/10/1910 | See Source »

...other is called "Every Man his own Thayer Club; or, How to Live Cheaply." It is written by a high-rank man, and evidently embodies the fruits of his own experiments. Its object is not only to show how to live cheaply, but also how to regulate the diet so as to economize time for studying. It is with this purpose that cracker and milk is made the staple article of food, while meat is restricted to Sundays. For, according to medical advice, studying should not begin after an ordinary meal for an hour; while with this diet digestion will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CURIOSITY IN LITERATURE. | 4/18/1873 | See Source »

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