Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rumored that Dr. Beech of the Harvard Medical School will shortly resign the demonstratorship of anatomy. This will be a great loss, as he stands in the foremost rank of scientists, as well as being held in high esteem by his pupils...
...evils of the marking system, the extra work and trouble given the professor, going sometimes so far as to convert the instructor into a mere automatic registering machine, the impossibility of a fair and accurate adjustment of relative rank, and above all the danger of leading students to work for marks rather than for broad scholarship, have been so often and so forcibly demonstrated as to need no more than mention. These evils we avoid. The students in the seminary courses have no further incentives than the love of the study and the natural emulation that arises of working together...
Considering the many college journals of the present day, their popularity in the college world, and the fact that almost every college and every preparatory school of any rank has one or more publications, it seems strange that a college so large and well-known as Wellesley has not before this entered the field of college journalism. Ability can certainly not be wanting, and there is surely enough enterprise for such an undertaking among four or five hundred American young ladies...
...Alcestis of Euripides has recently been presented at the Bradfield Academy, England. The School Chronicle says of it : "Well may Bradfield be proud to rank with Oxford and Harvard University as one of the only three places which have reproduced a Greek play on our modern stage, and to have done so with such undoubted success...
...snob, no more outrageous cad than your cad who has worn an academic gown. This admitted, comes the concession that your university gentleman is a noble type of courtesy and good manners, and thus the debtor side of the ledger is pretty well balanced. There was a time when "rank and birth" held possession of the colleges. Now "shoddy" and "finance" are represented there, and somehow they assume the by-gone airs of the old aristocrats...