Word: rank
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...literacy test would mean a yearly exclusion of some 350,000 immigrants. This exclusion is justified because, after barring criminal and pauper, it amounts to criminal negligence to admit immigrants of the same rank and intelligence as those which produce these evils...
...subject is one on which Mr. Holt is well equipped to speak, for he has put his publication in the front rank as an advocate of the peace movement and has been very active himself in behalf of the peaceful settlement of international disputes. In addition to participating in many conferences in this country, he visited the Second Hague Conference in 1907, and was decorated with the Order of the Sacred Treasure in 1909 by the Empire of Japan for promoting friendly relations between that nation and the United States...
...Room of the Union on Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Admiral Chadwick served in the Civil War, and was chief of staff under Admiral Sampson during the Spanish War. He served in the most important engagements on the Atlantic during the war, and was advanced five numbers in rank for eminent and conspicuous conduct in battle. Admiral Chadwick is also an author of considerable note...
...strongest in the half-mile and in the low hurdles. The new arrangement in the Intercollegiates, whereby five instead of four places will count makes it impossible to predict the team's showing under the rule, but taking everything into consideration it appears probable that the team will rank very well this year...
...engineering will be entrusted to the faculty of the Institute. In this agreement, Harvard and Technology make known to the world their belief in the combination of a practical and scientific training. As an educator of high school graduates and foreign students, Technology has always been in the front rank. Although it has also striven to benefit college graduates and all sorts of men, the combination of the two colleges will increase the cosmopolitanism and democracy of both. Technology's "research departments, splendidly equipped and splendidly endowed, will be used by men from all corners of the earth...