Word: rank
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...animated foot-ball men in the past will continue to exhibit itself and that such changes will from time to time be made as will lift the game into its true position, as the most exciting and most skilful of college games. Harvard has ever been in the foremost rank of reform, and on this account also we are glad of her re entry...
...unrepealed law of New Jersey passed while the state was a British colony, reads as follows: "That all women of whatever age, rank, profession or degree, whether virgins, maids or widows who shall, after this act, impose upon, seduce and betray into matrimony any of his Majesty's subjects by virtue of scents, cosmetics, washes paints, artificial teeth, false hair or high heeled shoes, shall incur the penalty of the law now in force against witchcraft and like misdemeanors." - Princetonian...
...radical defect of our present marking system is that it ignores the basis of Harvard's educational system, - individuality in work and self-development. Our mathematical scale, based on an average of per cents, is really no basis for class-rank, under the elective system; for such an estimate of individual proficiency assumes, first, the absolute equality of studies different in kind, and then, as a natural consequence, the infallibility of per cents as a common measure of knowledge of these different studies. Both these assumptions are so plainly absurd and inconsistent with our theory of education, and the unjust...
...spontaneity. In America, on the other hand, though to be sure no one singer seems ready to catch the mantle of Tennyson when it falls, yet the national character seems likely to favor the growth of a new school of poetry that may in the near future take rank with the best of England's. We are not giving our best attention to the details of rhythm; we have earnest convictions backed by a strong desire to do our best in maintaining them; we are sufficiently intimate with England to absorb some of her sweetness and light without necessarily losing...
Massachusetts sends by far the largest number of students, more than half the number in the academical department. The eight states which send the largest number are Massachusetts, 591; New York, 150; Pennsylvania, 48; Illinois, 30; Ohio, 29; California, 24; New Hampshire, 18; New Jersey, 15. The relative rank of these States was the same last year when they sent respectively, 543, 149, 40, 30, 30, 26, 20 and 19 students...