Word: rank
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bancroft has appointed Dr. Walter J. Otis surgeon of the 5th Regiment, with the rank of major. Dr. Otis has been detailed to serve on the board for the examination of medical officers of the militia...
...known, unless the examiners give private information, where a man really stands in the class he has reached. Students are the more ambitious to reach as high a class as possible, because fellowships and success, in such a profession as schoolmastering, depend, to a considerable extent, upon such rank...
...such a breach of the social etiquette before. I had the queerest kind of a Christmas present. What do you suppose it was? I doubt if you can guess it, so I'll tell you. It was a promotion, in the shape of a crystal button, to the fifth rank. How is that for high! There are nine ranks in all, so you see I am half way up the ladder...
...seventeen seniors who, with the present immediate members of the Phi Beta Kappa, form the first twenty-five in rank on the class of '82, general scale of three years, are : Messrs. Dakin, Cook, G. M. Richardson, Ludlow, A. Hall, Dickerman, Waite, Fiske, Whitman, W. H. Dunbar, J. W. Mason, Gage, Rice, Robinson, Fernald, Bullard, Allen. The first eight juniors on the class of '83, general scale of two years, are : Messrs. Grandgent, Hodges, Hubbard, Evans, McInnes, H. Putnam, Loeb, O'Callaghan. The present eight petitioned the general chapter to raise the number from twenty-five to one-seventh...
...dressed in a white Chinese suit, - a mandarin, Rev. Dr. Holland, and a few friends. The remains were enclosed in a casket, on top of which were placed his mandarin hat and a necklace of beads of a peculiar kind, which was the insignia of his rank in China. The exercises commenced with the singing of a German funeral song by a choir of students. Prof. C. C. Everett then made remarks, an abstract of which we give: We gather to pay the last sad offices of the church to one who was proud to hold the faith...