Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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gree. In this year, twenty-six ladies passed examinations at Cambridge, placing them on the Triposes (or three division rank-lists) of the university. All these ladies received regular certificates...
...same. It is a notorious fact that there are at present electives which no indolent student will choose, and others which few close students will enter. Thus every student is embarrassed in his choice of electives. Disinclination to hard work, ambition for collegiate honors, pecuniary dependence on high rank-each of these considerations closes to him certain electives and some whole branches of study. These motives, which ought not to be felt at all in shaping the students course, probably exert a larger influence than all others. He is drawn to studies which in themselves have no attraction...
...come to Harvard for thorough study in some particular branch of knowledge, that those courses which are included in their specialty should only count for them a fraction of their standard value-simply that some superficialist may have the possibility, thus denied to the specialist, of attaining a high rank...
Second.-This evil can be avoided only by considering, in making up the rank list, amount of work, as well as proficiency. Let the general rank list be made up by averaging two rank lists: one, the present list, representing proficiency; the other, representing amount of work, made up as follows. Find for each student the values of the electives in which he has received a certain per cent. (By fixing this per cent. at 60, 70, or 80, the tendency to superficial work could be repressed.) Arrange the students in the order of superiority, and assign to each position...
These three reforms in the ranking system would change the whole influence of the rank list. Collegiate distinction would count, as it should, as an encouragement to the very best work...