Word: rank
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...than it was in that indefinite period known as 'before the war.' Making a list hastily of well-known authors, setting their names down as they occur to us, it appears that Irving, Poe, Cooper and Whittier are almost the only names of men of the first rank who did not have a college education. Bryant began a college course, but was compelled to discontinue it. Longfellow, Hawthorne, Holmes, Emerson, Thoreau, Willis, Prescott, Bancroft. Motley, the two Danas, were all college...
...ours. Standing before such a large body of young men, he felt compelled to say, as an English divine had said before, "I bid you aspire" Seek better things. There are, however, three classifications of better things. The lowest - but one not to be despised - the personal success of rank and wealth. This is in the power of any who has iron enough in his nature to say, "I ought, I can, I will." Higher, is the service of one's country. One, who as a patriot can rank himself with that list, has not lived in vain. But highest...
...average; but the number of men registered for the first class for 1885-86 is only 52, considerably below the average. But what the class lacks in numbers it makes up in quality, for all the men, with three exceptions, have received degrees from some institution of collegiate rank. The colleges from which the men came are 15 in number. Harvard heads the list, sending thirty A.B.'s to continue the study of law at Cambridge. Of these, several took their degrees a year or two ago, not all being members of '85. Yale comes next, sending five men. Then...
...delegates are men who have taken part in the various athletic sports, rowing, base-ball, foot-ball, and in the contests of the track and the gymnasium. Other interests are by no means neglected. The scholarship of the college is well represented by the three scholars of highest rank in the several classes. Then to the great mass, of students who are neither athletic nor especially studious are not deprived of able representation. With such delegates we feel that the success of the Conference Committee is assured...
...cricket and foot-ball players. With such experts as Frank Dole in the foot-ball field, "Dick" Pennell in the gymnasium and on the athletic grounds, and Ellis, Ward on the river, all acting under the supervision of Prof. White, the University of Pennsylvania ought to take high rank in athletics during the coming collegiate year. [News...