Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cornell University's Medical College got a new full professor last week. To Dr. Elise Strang L'Esperance, clinical professor of preventive medicine, the recognition came at an age when most professors are tacking emeritus on to their titles. The new rank would mean little change in the duties she has filled with bustling enthusiasm as assistant professor for six years. But it did mark the last hurdle cleared on the long obstacle course which an ardently feminist doctor had been following for more than half a century. Says she: "I've been living medicine...
...recent rumpus about Leverett House has illustrated an apparently common fallacy--that there is a scale of quality among the Houses. There appears to be a widespread belief among freshmen at least that certain Houses rank at the bottom of a College-wide caste system. One pictures the word sweeping around the Union: "Gad man, don't go to Leverett, it hasn't got a tower." Of course it might just as well be the size of courtyards, but this season it is towers, so hundreds of freshmen gallop off to beat on other portals...
Only later does the freshman realize that Houses, unlike fraternities, have no rank, that "a House is what you make it" that they all offer the same facilities with only a few idiosyncratic variations, towers being one. Only later does he learn that Harvard has no House ranking ladder...
...just the chance to practice that installs the southern schools as favorites. The three institutions--North Carolina, Duke, and Wake Forest--rank among the best teams in the East. Playing for the Tar Heels, for example, will be Harvie Ward, national intercollegiate champion and probably one of the ten best amateurs in the country...
Another advance made by freshmen was in the number making first rank. At midyears of last year, 10 men out of 1889 gained top ranking; this year 22 freshmen are in Group I, out of a class that numbers 229 fewer members. On a percentage basis, the increase was almost threefold...