Word: rank
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...following names are arranged alphabetically and not according to rank in scholarship or order of election...
There, was a time when the elections to Phi Beta Kappa were quite an arbitrary affair. The twenty men or more in the class who had received the greatest number of As were elected in order of their rank, according to the figures in the College office. No man was considered for election from outside this select group of scholars. For some years to attempt was made to broaden the qualifications for membership and the result was the society narrowed down into a group of men similar to those recently described by President Hadley of Yale as "professional scholars." Another...
...shall be elected from the twelve men in highest standing in the Junior class, and not more than 22 are to be chosen from the 44 highest members of the Senior class. Thus an opportunity is given to base the election on ability and not necessarily on priority in rank alone. It is not stipulated that the entire number be elected and if the society cannot find eight and twenty-two men respectively in the lists referred to they are obliged to take only those men who fulfill their idea of the requirements. In addition, five...
...University, five of the Medical School, and one who has received an honorary degree. These men will form the nucleus for addition to the regular strength of the army in time of war. The appointees, of whom no service will be required except in time of war, have the rank of lieutenants, and will be given the highest volunteer rank when called into service...
...merits of contemporaneous art he was warmly appreciative, but he felt, as all men of large vision must feel, that much of it is too limited in purpose, and too experimental in method, to rank as yet with the highest achievements of past times. Thus in University teaching he felt that it was more important to acquaint young men with what the fine arts have been than to engage their attention extensively on the various phases of modern art which, though manifesting much that is hopeful, are more or less transient in character. CHARLES H. MOORE...