Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before the tutorial system and the concentration plan there still remain two obsolete reminders, the annual publication of the rank list and the degree with general honors, which run counter to the purposes of the new institutions by putting too much emphasis on grades at the expense of true intellectual accomplishment...
...rank list, which is published every year, is little more than a hangover from the Prep School Honor Roll. It indicates only the number of satisfactory or unsatisfactory grades which the student has managed to garner during the academic year and nothing whatsoever as to the intelligence of the tutorial work which he has done in the field in which his chief interests lie. To University Hall the maintenance of such a list may be convenient, but its publication is unpleasant and unnecessary...
...after the recommendation of the division of History, Government, and Economics last May, but no steps have yet been taken in that no steps have yet been taken in that no steps have yet been taken in that direction. In spite of frequent criticism in these columns, the published rank list and the general honors degree still remain as obsolete institutions utterly out of line with the aims of tutorial work and of the special fields...
Perhaps the most far-reaching effect of the Minnesota mortgage case decision will be its effect on real estate finance. If a state can pass a law suspending foreclosures, even for an emergency period, what rank will investors hereafter give real estate in their list of investments, It may be that the existence of a machinery of exchange, the readiness of the federal government to guarantee interest and principal on mortgages to be changed for those on which there has been difficulty in paying the rent or interest, will have an influence in strengthening real estate finance...
Captain Anthony Eden, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs: rewarded with a thumping honor, Lord Privy Seal, but not raised to Cabinet rank, as the Lord Privy Seal usually is, lest offense be given his politically potent chief, Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon...