Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...junior rank list at Yale numbers...
...singular, but not one of the colleges has this year produced a punter who has entitled himself to rank at all with Watkinson, Savage, Moffat Richards, Harlan, Shaw, Mason, Camp, Winton, Cutts, Watson and McNair...
...another, when the leaders, drawing in a long breath make the decisive charge. The side that forces the other side backwards wins this part of the rush. The sophomores then proceed to a cross street near the grammar school lot, and form in a solid line, the front rank resting on the inner side of the cross-walk. The freshmen then march along the sidewalk and are rushed into the street by the sophomores. The freshmen then regain the walk and go along by the side of the fence hand over hand. The sophomores pull them away from here...
...given by members of the class of 1879, and those on United States history have been given in memory of one of that class-Glendower Evans. Evans had been an excellent student while in college, though he did not work for marks and was not among the highest in rank. He gave much of his time to reading, and few college men have had such a wide range of reading on graduation than he had. He entered the Law School and began to practice law in Boston, working also on law books and writing more or less on social subjects...
...dinner oration. The only fault to be found with that oration is that it did not go far enough and condemn, more specifically than it did, the pretty widespread snobbery which is practiced toward non athletic men by their fellow students who consider themselves far above them in social "rank." There are many cases of men who "cut," or treat condescendingly, a fellow-student because he wears a seedy coat or is unpolished in his manners, even though he has worked side by side with them in the laboratory or the class room for months, and may have given evidence...