Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same afterward. This ignores the difference in the amount of time each student spends studying, for as long as grades in exams tend to vary according to the amount memorized and hence the time spent, it is the hard worker, not the man with initiative, who will rank best. Yet the grind is not the most apt to succeed. A more accurate measure of ability seems to be the thesis, a topic not mentioned by Dr. Lowell...
Most other British universities where experimental physics holds high rank have onetime Cavendish men as department heads. Three men (Thomson, Aston and Wilson) were awarded Nobel Prizes while working at Cavendish. Rutherford was already a Nobel Laureate when he went from Manchester to Cavendish. Chadwick got his Nobel Prize a month after he had left Cavendish for Liverpool. Among the foreign bigwigs who have studied at Cavendish are two other Nobelists: Niels Bohr of Denmark and Arthur Holly Compton of Chicago. This bombardment of laurels seems exceedingly likely to continue...
...collars, a tunic and square-toed shoes, was considered peculiar by his mates. They were quite right. When he was hardly past 30, Maxwell invented electro-magnetic waves (e.g., wireless waves) out of his head, then proved mathematically that their speed must equal that of light. British physical scientists rank Maxwell second only to Isaac Newton. His immortal set of four equations, deemed a thing of beauty by scientific esthetes, is Exhibit A for apprentice theorists...
...story of a '"typical" (but unidentified) village of 309 people in Indiana. Authors of this child's Middletown are Stanford University's young Professor Paul R. Hanna, progressive education's No. 1 curriculum expert; University of Chicago's Professor William S. Gray, a top-rank expert on reading; and Genevieve Anderson, a Des Moines assistant elementary school director...
There exist few doubters to whom it is necessary to demonstrate anew the value of a well-organized program of intramural athletics. To the aspiring athlete of sub-varsity talents, it gives the opportunity to take part in those sports which he enjoys playing. To the collegiate rank and file, it offers stimulus to widespread athletic participation, to pleasurable exercise directed toward the development of sound bodies for sane minds. To rapidly spreading spectator sports and grandstand gymnastics, hailed by our fashionable pessimists as the sign of twilight in a decadent generation, it deals an effective body blow...