Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the evenings of the past month there have gathered at the "Crimson" building meetings of concentrators in the various fields of concentration in the college. These men, chosen at random from the first five groups of the rank list, have discussed the courses, professors, tutors, section men and the methods of instruction that they have been exposed to at Harvard...
...Manhattan the rank & file insurgents of A. F. of L.'s International Seamen's Union who staged the "unauthorized" maritime strike in Atlantic and Gulf ports last autumn (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.) finally made a clean break with their old leaders, set up a new National Maritime Union claiming 28,000 members. Announced were plans to join C. I. O., to demand National Labor Relations Board elections to decide whether the old union or the new should have exclusive bargaining rights...
...innovations-all aimed at drawing out rather than cramming the pupil-drew wide and often unfavorable attention. By the time he had married and started his famed Temple School in Boston he was known as an educational revolutionary. The Ph. D.'s of the day considered him a rank incompetent. "He turned over and tumbled up and down at least a thousand of the most influential books in the world . . . yet the total result never amounted to anything in the least like erudition. His faculty for ignoring and forgetting the innumerable things that he considered unimportant approached the phenomenal...
...that all of the Dean's legal training has been in the theoretical side of the law or in administration. As a lawyer in the practical sense, or at least the sense that has been understood for generations, he has had little experience, no matter how high he may rank in the development and teaching of legal thought. Thus, in all fairness to the man and to the University to which he is to give his services, one can ask "Is he fitted to teach and to direct the teaching of lawyers?" For Harvard, besides its function as a laboratory...
...result of increasing interest and the fact that it is a major at a majority of eastern colleges, basketball last month was voted the sixth major sport at Harvard by the committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports. Should the mermen join the ranks next fall they will qualify as the second team to get Number One rank at Harvard in the last 24 years...