Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...antagonists of the House Plan greeted the announcement of the change with a number of dire pictorial representations of the future characteristics of Harvard, the individual houses, and the individual students. Some said that the plan was a gross pampering of romantic democracy. Others predicted houses separated by social rank and a tendency toward snobbishness, or perhaps a superficial imitation of Oxford and Cambridge with a super-imposed paternalism...
Though it was the last created (1913) and hence the "lowest" in rank, the Labor portfolio is easily the fourth most ticklish for a President to assign. His Treasury choice, most ticklish, must have the approval of the American Bankers' Association and Big Business at large. Next most ticklish is picking an Attorney General and on this Presidents invariably consult the American Bar Association. Secretary of State is of less definite, more external importance, causing a President to calculate how his Administration will be regarded by other nations. Then, having suited Capital, Bench & Bar, and the World at Large...
...Empresses did not think much of him, though he was their nephew and a prince. But his cousin Tomboy Maud, against her mother's council, fell in love with him, and with her father's encouragement married him July 22, 1896. He was then promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the Danish Royal Navy...
Seventeen students in Harvard College, who attained places in Group I of the Rank List, were awarded Honorary John Harvard Scholarships, without stipend, for the current year, as follows: L. E. Becker '32, Tonawanda, N. Y.; Garrett Birkhoff '32, Cambridge; R. P. Boas, Jr. '33, Norton; J. C. Campbell '33, Bronxville, N. Y.; E. D. Chapple '31, Salem; A. C. England, Jr. '33, Pittsfield; L. T. Furth '31, St. Louis, Mo.; Frank Gilchrist '32, Wilmette, Ill.; W. A. Huppuch '33, Glens Falls, N. Y.; Richard Inglis '33. So, Euclid, O.; D. D. Lloyd '31, Plainfield, N. J.; E. L. Popper...
Seventy-two students in Harvard College, who attained places in Group II of the Rank List, were awarded Honorary Harvard College Scholarships, without stipend, for the academic year...