Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...English poetry, proving, to my mind, the genuine poetical gift of the race; this turn imparts to our poetry a stamp of high distinction, and sometimes it doubles the force of a poet not by nature of the very highest order, such as Gray, and raises him to a rank beyond what his natural richness and power seem to promise. Goethe, with his fine critical perception, saw clearly enough both the power of style in itself, and the lack of style in the literature of his own country; and perhaps if we regard him solely as a German...
...regard to the seats which have just been sent out. They were not assigned wholly by lot, and for good reason applications were received from many alumni,- graduates of classes ranging from that of 1893 to that of 1827; applications also came from men who have attained high academic rank, and from others who have rendered distinguished public services; and, besides, there are a number of ladies who have purchased seats. All such applicants were entitled to consideration in the assignment of seats, and it would obviously have been wholly out of place to force them into the background...
...life, and here many make the great mistake, for certainly there are thousands who spend all their strength in its acquirement. Others make the object of life the attainment of social or political honors. Life is none of these; it does not consist of honor or gold, or of rank, but it is rather the development and perfecting of the character and the striving after an ideal manhood...
...thesis or theses submitted by graduating students appear to the judges to be of superior merit to the best post graduate thesis, then the prize of $100 shall be awarded to the graduate's thesis, and the post graduate thesis will be given a prize according to its relative rank...
...annual list of deturs has been announced. For the first time the men are given in alphabetical order instead of in the order of rank. No deturs were awarded to any class but that of ninety-six. The usual number of deturs has been considerably increased in the last two years. Formerly the number was generally twenty-eight to thirty, but this is the second year that the number awarded to sophomores has been thirty-five. It will be seen from the following list that of the men who obtain deturs, twenty-six are from New England, and of these...