Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quiet, unassuming young Englishman was ordained a deacon in the Mother Church, a position which it was confidently expected by his quiet unassuming friends would lead to greater prominence in Her service. But the young man never advanced in rank handicapped as he was by a stammer which prevented him from reading sermon. Disappointed he turned again to his first work, and in the same year printed an ambitious little volume called "A Syllabus of Plane Allgebraical Geometry." This created but little stir in the pleasant, close cropped countrysides of England, so a year later the literary world...
...really did know him. Glover was one of that considerable group in every class that "live at home". Most of his classmates probably knew him only as a name, for he received A's in all his courses and his name always appeared in the First Group of the Rank List. Those who did seek him out found him a quiet likeable fellow who had set for himself a high standard of achievement from which he would not permit himself to be diverted. It was entirely typical of such a man that he should devote himself to the greatest problem...
...Justice Holmes comes from an old Harvard family, and since his graduation from college he has upheld Harvard's reputation in the legal profession as his father upheld the University's literary standards," Professor Chafee stated. "His legal writing stands in the first rank, and his book "The Common Law" is one of the classic commentaries on the growth of the legal system, while his collected papers are read by almost every law student in the country...
Tonight's Brooks House speaker, who is sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in New York, was born in Canada, and was educated at St. Andrews College, Toronto, and at Loyola University. During the war Douglas held the rank of Major in His Majesty's forces, and following the war, devoted seven years to the study of Mediterranean and Balkan problems; Douglas has resided or travelled in Morocco, Egypt, Rhodes, Patmos, Athens, and Helgrade...
...career which stands out in the history of the common law. But Mr. Justice Holmes has been more than an outstanding judge for substantially half a century. As a law writer and law teacher at Harvard, before he went on the bench, he had put himself in the front rank of legal scholars, and for two generations upon the bench he has been the leader to whom American teachers of law have looked not only for expositions of the law in his opinion but for far-reaching suggestions in his published papers and addresses. With an assured grasp upon...