Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...following names are arranged alphabetically and not according to rank in scholarship or order of election...
...speak to you with reference to the claims of teaching as a profession, and I propose to treat it under the four following heads: first, in its relation to the student life; second, in its relation to the outside world; third, comparatively, how does this profession rank with other professions which may engage your attention? fourth, and last, what are some of the inward satisfactions coming from this profession, which I think are sufficiently great to attract men to it? Because in this, as in any other profession which we undertake, everything depends upon our being peculiarly qualified...
...sheets which has been issued this year and last by persons who withhold their names would die a natural death. We realize that to mention is to advertise them, and perhaps to encourage their further appearance. But this most recent issue has gone from the merely offensive to the rank indecent; the matter has now reached a point where suppression is a necessity. Such a sheet as appeared on Wednesday would be a disgrace to any community upon earth; it is doubly disgraceful in this place, where the baseness of the few has usually been restained by the good sense...
...three succeeding years went with expeditions among the Indians in the far West. For twelve years previous to 1891 he did routine duty among these people, having charge of an investigation of the ghost dance disturbances. At the opening of the Spanish War Colonel Scott had attained the rank of adjutant-general, and in this capacity served in Cuba throughout the disturbance. During the governorship of Major-General Wood, Colonel Scott acted as chief of staff, and in 1903 went to the Philippines to become governor of the Sulu Archipelago. In this capacity he abolished slavery and the slave trade...
After graduating from West Point in 1876, Col. Scott held various commissioned offices in the cavalry service of the United States army, and at the opening of the Spanish war had attained the rank of adjutant-general. During the governorship of Maj. General Leonard Wood in Cuba, Colonel Scott served as chief of staff, and in 1903 he went to the Philippines to become governor of the Sulu Archipelago. While holding this position he was seriously wounded by natives of the islands. Between the time of his graduation from West Point and the opening of the Spanish War, he held...