Word: rank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guests to the Kaiserhof Hotel, generally considered Berlin's No. i Nazi rendezvous. There Dr. Ley presented a huge box of chocolates with card addressed to "Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Windsor"-although the Duchess has not yet been raised by His Britannic Majesty to the rank of Royal Highness...
...group "B", about half of the men will receive a modified tutorial. They will not see their tutors as often as those men in "A", and will often work in groups instead of individually. The others. lower in academic rank or with no real interest in their work, will receive little more than just occasional advice on courses from time to time...
Sanders Theatre is to house the Federal Music Project's State Symphony Orchestra next Sunday evening in a program headed by Tschaikowsky's First Symphony and including Tartini's Concerto in A Major. These concerts are not of the first or even second rank technically, but they are almost invariably quite worthwhile as a musical experience, and the low price of admission is an added attraction...
...institution ranked first in all the measures, obviously the sum of its ranks would be 28. The nearest approach to this unanimity of rank is found in the case of Harvard University, the sum of whose rank total 63. Harvard stood first in thirteen of the measures, Columbia in three, Chicago, California, Johns Hopkins, and Princeton in two each, and Yale, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Massachusetts, Institute of Technology in one each. A complete tabulation is shown in the accompanying table. Relative Standing of Sixteen American Graduate Schools According to Composite of 28 Crietria Institution Sum of Ranks 1. Harvard...
...comparison with Mr. Foster's composite shows a change in rank of nine of the sixteen institutions, the greatest change being in the case of Michigan, which is raised from eleventh to ninth rank. The most notable change, perhaps, is in the case of Chicago, which is raised from third to second place. By either method Harvard easily stands at the top. Walter Crosby Eells. School of Education, Stanford University