Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...proposed athletic league, so Harvard may take pleasure in having already secured so worthy a new rival. Cornell's athletic reputation has been chiefly won through her crew, but in football and baseball as well, she has of late years begun to take high rank. There is every reason to expect a series of interesting contests as the result of the present negotiations. Cornell will be very welcome among Harvard's competitors...
...plan is now under consideration of abandoning the present system of indicating a student's rank in his courses by the letters A, B, C, D, and E, and of substituting for it a broader division into three general grades. The change would be for the better, just as formerly the change from per cent. marking was doubtless an improvement. In estimating a student's work it is almost impossible to draw very fine distinctions between the different grades. When it comes to a variation of a few per cent., the absurdity of attempting it is apparent; and the difficulty...
...best, any system of graded marking is likely to prove not wholly satisfactory. On the border line between two grades there must always be a number of men whose proper rank it is extremely difficult to determine. Even assuming, what it would be unwise to assert, that examinations are absolutely reliable tests of a student's attainment, there would still be the danger of his suffering from some unintentional injustice in the marking; and upon a doubtful decision of the mark in a single course, may hinge the really important question as to the grade of the final degree...
...work of excavation has been carried on principally at Argive Heraeum and Eretria, in both of which places discoveries of a most interesting nature and scientific value were made. Professor Waldstein would rank these excavations with those at Olympia at Epidaurus, and on the Athenian Acropolis, and prospectively also with those at Delphi. The climax of research was the unearthing of the beehive tombs of the Mycenaean period, which had been sought in vain for several years. The vases found therein were nearly all in perfect preservation and the positions of the bones found massed together would indicate that...
...Tuesday evening next, March 26th, at 8 o'clock, on "The Manners and Customs of the Parsees." Madame Cavalier is a lady of much grace and beauty, and of the highest culture; her lectures are most interesting and instructive and as a lecturer she stands in the very first rank. She dresses in her beautiful native costume. Tickets one dollar each, at 36 Rutland square, or at the Chapel door...