Word: rank
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class ode will be competed for by those members of the class who do not rank as commencement men. A goodly number of pedagogues have departed to wield the Birch in winter schools, but the proportion of teachers from the senior class is very small. Reeve's American Band of Providence has been engaged by the senior class to furnish the music for commencement week. Vocalists for the concert have not yet been selected. Owing to the lack of cooperation on the part of the under-classmen the seniors have decided not to establish a lecture course this winter. Several...
...England, during the past sixty or seventy years, were good at the oar, at foot-ball, at cricket; but they did not allow those games to encroach on their more serious duties. At Rugby, at Winchester, and other public schools, and afterwards at Oxford and Cambridge, they won high rank as scholars. This they could not possibly have done had they given - or been allowed to give - one-tenth part of the time devoted to those purposes in some of our American colleges, to training, travelling and public exhibitions...
...number of college secret societies Michigan University takes the front rank - Columbia having 8. Cornell 10, Harvard 3, Union 6, Yale 9, Michigan over...
...Holmes, A. Lyman, Norris, O. Putnam, Kikkawa, Moffat, Wingate, Binney, Jacobs, O. G. Smith Hooke, Edgerly, Lee, Dame, Howe, Ranlet, H. L. Smythe, Johnson, Sanger, Moors, G. D. Burrage, E. T. Cabot, J. E. Davis, A. M. Lord, Sprague, Brackett, E. P. Warren. These parts are given on the rank of the three past years, orations being assigned to those whose average has been over ninety per cent., dissertations to those over eighty, and disquisitions to those over seventy-five. This list will be revised just before commencement, at which time those who have received highest honors will be given...
...twenty-two were women. Of the women sixteen were successful, or about seventy-three per cent; while forty-two per cent of the men passed. Only twenty-seven per cent of the men were placed in the first division, but sixty-eight per cent of the women reached that rank. That is to say, while every woman graduating but one was in the first division, only one man in three was so placed. The age of the women was slightly less than that of the men. Such facts as these will impress the most prejudiced person of woman's capacity...