Word: rank
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...English magazine of psychology, and for the Californian. His writings have been of a philosophical and literary character - "Philosophy in literature and literature in philosophy," Dr. James has termed them. In his philosophical tendencies he has been called a Neo-Kantian, and is undoubtedly destined to take high rank among American philosophers...
...power of perseverance, or even of pertinacity, in college studies, as in every thing else, must be acknowledged to be of the greatest value. The fact is frequently remarked that students who have given the most brilliant promises of future success in preparatory schools frequently take but a mediocre rank in college. While the saying is trite that high rank in the freshman year often means but a subordinate position at graduation, on the other hand it is almost a college tradition that the man who ranks high in the later years of his course usually stands in the lower...
...consider Princeton out of the race, but Saturday's defeat is an emphatic denial of such a fact. Our nine was outplayed in every point and has lost the series with the Princetons. In number of defeats Harvard, Princeton and Brown stand equal, while Yale is in the front rank. It becomes more and more of a puzzle to us why Princeton so easily walks away with our nine, who have proved themselves capable of beating Yale at home and defeating Brown in a well-played game. Chances have most decidedly gone against us, for we firmly believe our nine...
...found more difficulty in mastering the hard problems in the higher branches of mathematics than he did in any of his other studies, but his purpose was never to fail. His class was one in which there was a large amount of ambition and an intense struggle for rank in scholarship. In this class Longfellow stood justly among the first. At commencement he was assigned one of the three English orations; the valedictory, being the highest in rank, was received by his older and able scholarly classmate, Little. Gorham Deane, a young man of the most remarkable metaphysical powers...
...following from the N. Y. Tribune relative to Emerson's career at Harvard will doubtless serve as a solace to many: "It is recorded that, like many students subsequently distinguished, his collegiate rank was not a high...