Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Until 1786 students at both Harvard and Yale, were ranked entirely according to social position. Rank lists of the classes were posted in the beginning of freshman year, and were eagerly awaited. Yale was the first to abolish the system and Harvard followed suit five years later. - Yale News...
...following are candidates for catcher's position: Henshaw, '88; Slade, '90; Bigelow, '90; and Campbell, L. S. Henshaw by his work last year, both as catcher and at the bat, placed himself in the front rank of college players. No Harvard player ever made as great a success in his first year as Henshaw did. Choate was catcher on his Freshman nine, and substitute on the University nine last year. He is a good backstop and a fair batter. The other three candidates...
...rumored that old Mr. Sever, the present oldest living graduate of Harvard, is much elated at the news that this honorable rank has descended upon his shoulders...
Until 1786 the students at both Yale and Harvard were ranked entirely according to social standing. Such rank-lists of the classes were posted in the buttery at the beginning of the freshman year and were waited for expectantly. Yale was the first to abolish this vicious system of ranking for that of alphabetical order. Harvard followed in her wake five years later...
...have every reason to claim for ourselves a place in the front rank of American universities, and yet this claim is seldom made. The press teems with the well-grounded self-congratulations of Harvard and Yale. Princeton is, in name, about to become a university, while we at Pennsylvania are content to hide our light under a bushel. We have a corps of professors at least equal to that of any institution in America: we have open to us courses of study in all directions; we can become classical scholars, philologists, mathematicians, engineers, chemists, botanists, financiers, biologists, physicians, dentists, veterinary...