Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beautiful people doing their thing." But a secret fraternal order of faculty and students does great damage at a competitive institution which justifies its competitiveness on the accuracy of its system for rewarding merit. Where one decimal point in the grade average means a jump in class rank of twenty places and where a good letter of recommendation from a faculty member can be the difference between two students lumped at the middle of the class, there are few students who would not welcome the chance to fraternize with faculty on a regular basis. This "competitive advantage' of membership...
...calling attention to an atmosphere which seems to them foreign and irrelevant. But the problem of alienation at the Law School extends beyond the problems of a disaffected minority. It may extend as well to the vast majority of students who are not in the top handful in class rank or who lack the social acceptability which members of the Choate Club esteem so highly. Roger Lowenstein...
...Chappie, the rank outsider in the second race betting, came on from fourth place in the stretch to overtake Third Party, the 8-1 third choice. Fox Star, the 2-1 favorite, made a strong move in the stretch but could finish no better than third. Empey Rullah lost his rider at the quarter pole. Po' L'il Chappie, a six-year-old gelding, ran the six furlongs in 1:12 4/5. He paid $149.40 straight, $51.60 for place, and $21.80 for the show...
PHOTOGRAPHERS and their critics like to rank a photograph in the hierarchy of artistic quality--it's better than these, but not as good as these others. Most other people wish they could decide (and be right) that the photo they're looking at is good or bad. They shouldn...
...disobeying orders. Nor did the prospect of this punishment induce Mary Elizabeth to resume soldierly ways or to put on her Marine uniform again. When her case is finally reviewed, the lady Leatherneck, who enlisted straight from school in Grand Junction, Colo., hopes to be reduced to the rank of civilian...