Word: rank
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unhappily President Anderson did not know what he was talking about. His little theory, although a very pretty one, does not fit the facts. For out of the one hundred and eighty-five courses offered here this year, only forty-five are in charge of anyone under the rank of assistant professor. Moreover, as we have said, many even of our tutors and instructors are as able as the Rochester University "professors...
...would seem as though difficulty must arise in ranking justly those whose marks are near the line which separates two classes. One instructor might rank them in one class, another in another...
...take a case in print. Suppose that "good" means a mark between seventy and eighty-five per cent. and "excellent" one between eighty-five and a hundred per cent. Suppose now that there is a book which one instructor would rank eighty-six and another eighty four, under the old per cent. system. Under the new class system the one would rank it "excellent," the other only "good." Under the old system the range between the possible marks, arising from the mood of the marker or from a difference in markers would be but trifling, but under...
...courses, Political Economy X and History XX, have been established, wholly or in large part as experiments, which are important because they introduce into undergraduate work an entirely different method of study from that hitherto pursued. These courses are open only to graduates and to 'undergraduates of high rank or special promise,' and are intended to afford an opportunity for the special investigation of topics under the guidance of an instructor...
...this side of Yale." But suffice to say, we do not agree to this verdict. We are not a "bad lot." There are as noble young men among Harvard students as ever despised cant and followed the right. Why then is this unfavorable opinion? It is simply because the rank grass has overtopped good, the tares grown over the wheat. Judged by such a standard as this verdict would necessitate, we would all be athletes, dudes, and writers of sentimental pessimistic verse. This, of course, is absurd. Let us then be judged with fairness if not leniently. We are gentlemen...