Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...resort of all the brilliant men and the poets of the north of France. Fortunately for us it was their delight to take for their theme the novel moral ideals and virtues of the time. The troubadours loved to tell first of all of courtesy as high in the rank of virtues; then of valor, of generosity, of perfect refinement and gentleness. There were other virtues which do not now pass as such. Youth was lauded, age condemned. Without joy, whether active or passive, none could be virtuous; still less without measure, by which was meant method, regularity, decorum...
...their first degree in thirty-one different American institutions of learning; thirty-eight of them have received higher degrees; twenty six have received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, conferred at seven universities in America and five in Europe; forty-nine are or have been teachers, thirty with the rank of Professor in forty-two institutions of learning in the United States...
...prepared for college at the Boston Latin School, where he won the prize for elocution at graduation. He wrote part of last year's Delta Upsilon play, which was very successful. He has not only done a great deal of literary work, but has also taken a high rank in classical studies. He is a member of the Delta Upsilon Society...
...most unwise policy to encourage among college students the resort to methods of money earning which rank so low in the scale of honorable employment. The theory that all self-supporting labor is honorable is here in danger of being too widely applied. There are certain forms of menial service to which it is not well for a self-respecting man to become habituated, even if such a one can. Among them the waiting in Memorial Hall may safely be classed...
...most unwise policy to encourage among college students the resort to methods of money earning which rank so low in the scale of honorable employment. The theory that all self supporting labor is honorable is here in danger of being too widely applied...