Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time, and it may make a serious difference with their standing if they take sufficient time from their preparation to do the work well, as the instructors of course desire. There is no justice in such a proceeding to commend it in the slightest; on the contrary it is rank injustice both to the men and their work. We most earnestly hope that there may be no further cause for complaining on this score. In such a matter of simple fairness there ought never to arise even a chance for complaining...
...question which has been and still is troubling the minds of the thinking members of the veterinary profession is; "What purpose had Harvard in establishing a Veterinary Department in connection with the Medical School?" Was it to educate young men to become credible members of a profession which should rank as high as human medicine in the public mind, or was it to run an animal hospital on a strictly business basis...
...flamingo. The bright colors and picturesque attitudes of this chorus made the 'Birds' a far more brilliant spectacle than either the 'CEdipus' or the 'Ajax.' The final scene was especially striking. On each side of the stage the Birds were grouped like infantry prepared to receive cavalry, the front rank crouching close to the ground, wrapped in their wings, the next row standing with their wings stretched out from the shoulders, and those behind extending their wings into the air; in the centre Peithetairos and Basileia, seated, in white wedding garments, with Euelpides, Prometheus, Herakles, Poscidon, and Triballos around them...
...arrangement. The experiment of conducting a classic course and a scientific course was tried for ten years in the University at Barlin, and the results carefully observed; but although the students were of equal ability, the trial showed that the men who took the scientific course did not rank so high as the others. The decision of the faculty of Harvard, whichever way it may go, will be an epochmaking event in the history of American education. [Transcript...
...yesterday, you say that Mr. Arnold's criticism of Emerson has placed the latter in the light in which posterity must view him. Do you not go too far in making this assertion? Mr. Arnold, if I remember rightly, said that Emerson could not be reckoned in the first rank, either of poets or philosophers, whereas the truth has always been held to be that Emerson was the foremost philosopher that this century has produced. His poetry is often crude and deficient in form, but in poetic thought few men can exceed him. The test, or one of the tests...