Word: rank
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Next to the great advance which the college authorities have made in the matter of compulsory worship is the important change in the marking system. The abolition of percentages and individual ranking must be a subject of congratulation to all students, for we trust that the undergraduates here in Cambridge have reached that plane of scholarship where men believe that knowledge is the aim of college life, and not that knowledge is the means whereby a high rank may be obtained. The former system of credits was notoriously unfair, for who, if he be a man of insight, will undertake...
Princeton, also, loses two of her best batsmen, but will probably rank this year, as she did last, next to Harvard in batting strength. In fielding, the nine will, from present indications, equal that of Yale, with the additional advantage of having a more effective pitcher...
...owner. Next comes the note-book in flexible covers, bearing generally some such printed legend as the "Students Own Blank Book." These are used by men who take few and careless notes, and after a few days they get the air of a grocery order book. Above these rank the larger stiff covered note-books of all shapes and sizes, men using these are worthy of some respect, for, however poor their notes may be, they intended to do well at the beginning. Note-books in grades above these belong to the "aristocracy" and comprise everything from the ones marked...
...unfair means to gain an end which is valuable, only so far as it is genuine. While every thoughtful Harvard man will admit this last statement, there can be no doubt that cribbing is practised by many who recognize in it, the only method possible of maintaining their class rank, and that college opinion is not yet outspoken enough to stamp such cribbing as nothing more nor less than cheating. It is this opinion that is unworthy of Harvard, and the question naturally arises, how it can be changed. The faculty is utterly powerless. If more strict police measures...
...enlighten him upon the ultimate chances of success. The student will also hear with mingled feelings of joy and sorrow of the man who has made his mark in the world, and of the man who has been forced to abandon the profession and step down into the lower rank of a merchant. All these statements cannot fail to impress themselves upon the student's mind; he will carry the thoughts of the speaker home with him and will endeavor, as far as he sees fit, to heed his advice. And so it is in all the other lectures...