Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the undergraduate cannot belong to more than one final club, there is competition every year among the clubs for some candidates. For this reason, the sophomore often hears of how the clubs rank within the system. Any list of the "best" clubs, of course, varies with who is doing the rating. Porcellian, A.D. and Fly are frequently ranked together by members of all clubs as the most desirable three. Though other clubs will usually go along with this appraisal, they then rank their own club as fourth. Financial considerations as well as traditions play a part in these rankings...
John Lonsdale, Phillip Southall, and Harold Scott are all within striking distance of team positions, although they rank just off the team...
...there is another group beside the prodigals--President Jordan calls those in this category his "gambler's group"--whose achievements have not yet equaled their potentialities. He says, "Each year we deliberately gamble on a fair number of young women who may not rank impressively by the criteria we have so carefully established but who none the less seem to the Committee to possess interesting personalities or to have cutting edges to their minds." A four-year study of the "gambler's group" proved they are worth the risk. Their academic record is equal to that of the student body...
Undergraduates will not be affected, Flemming said. They must still score 70 on the deferment test, or rank in the top half of their class their freshman year, the top two-thirds their sophomore year, and the top three-quarters their junior year to be deferred for the next two semesters...
...worst stories in this issue would rank with the best in one of the Lampoon's lean years. And the novelty of the "Picture History of Harvard-Yale Football" is refreshing though the article is not consistently well-done...