Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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ITHACA, Nov. 13, 1882. The spirit of progress is still the vital principle at Cornell. Animated by this spirit, which has pushed our youthful university into the front rank of American colleges and forced them to needed reforms, and fearing that it was growing dormant in the breasts of the authorities, certain public-spirited individuals recently demolished a wooden bridge leading to the campus. This action was expected to bring forcibly before the proper persons the fact that the bridge was not in keeping with the other property of the university. Like many radical reforms, this did not meet with...
...Kentucky Military Institute, and other schools of all sizes. But only a few, those coming from Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, etc., were recognized as on a level with the Harvard graduates, the others being told that their degrees bore evidence of the fact that their training was about sufficient to rank them with the present Harvard freshmen. - [N. Y. Post...
Seniors are reminded that they can obtain their rank and average for the past three years by applying at the office...
...request of the Chinese government, five Chinese youths will be admitted next September to West Point, and five to Annapolis. All of them are of the rank of princes...
...enthusiastic and energetic class. Their athletic meeting was a great success, and their pluck and push is bound to prove very valuable to the athletic interests of our great rival. Let Yale, '86, take notice, and do every thing in her power to aid in maintaining our present high rank." Praise, we feel sure, that the freshmen have very deservedly won. May their exertions not falter until success in every field has crowned their efforts, and through their aid the championship in athletic sports, so long withheld from Harvard, may be reclaimed. Then in 1886 may the freshman class rest...