Word: rank
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...change in the undergraduate course of study, while of particular interest to Princeton, at the same time has a very wide significance. Only third and fourth year students in the university will be affected. If in the first and second years the student has attained a rank known as "general average excellence" in the junior and senior years he will be permitted to enroll as a candidate for "final special honors." Such student may elect a department in which he wishes to specialize, and then may reduce the number of his studies from five, the number required of the average...
...August 16, while bathing at Seabrcok Beach. N. H. A. strong undertow which carried him out of reach of help was responsible for the accident. Hamlin prepared at the Bordentown Military Institute in New Jersey. In his first year here he distinguished himself as a scholar of high rank, procuring...
...leaves for England today, is the logical winner of the tournament, there being no one else in his class among the collegians. Another player of marked ability who was ineligible this year because of only one year's residence in the University, is J. J. Armstrong '14, who is ranked, as is Washburn, in the second ten of the national rank list...
Whether, however,--quoting Newman--"the time is now surely ripe for someone to take up all modern music into one vast synthesis," may be questioned. Newman, as others have done, cites Michelangelo among great men with whom Wagner deserved to rank. It may one day be recognized that the two have not only commanding genius in common, but that they hold by no means dissimilar positions in the history of their respective arts. We look upon the exaggerations and fads in the art of the age succeeding Michelangelo with the same contemptuous pity for so much wasted talent and endeavor...
What is probably the largest and most complete exhibit of paintings and sketches by the famous English master, J. M. W. Turner, that has ever been held in this country, is now open to members of the University in the Fogg Art Museum. Turner stands in the front rank among modern painters, and has won special fame because of his work in landscape effects. The collection in Fogg is extensive and varied, consisting of three large and five smaller oil paintings, over thirty watercolors, and seventeen pencil sketches. Since many of these works have been loaned for a limited period...