Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Though he often played to the gallery, and was frequently sensational, this sprang from a sincere dramatic instinct. Few have had more devoted followers, and few have been more wholly admirable in their attitudes toward their families. He stood unabashed before Victoria's rank, his boldness pleasing rather than disconcerting her. This was also the case elsewhere, the fact that he was outspoken proving attractive rather than repulsive. Perhaps his largest asset in achieving success was his imagination, which led him directly to his great schemes for England's territorial aggrandizement. In spite of his love for fame, he added...
...wonder, in view of the elaborate apparatus and severe regimen of training required for modern college athletic competition, that participation in athletics is confined to those who have some chance of becoming first rank men in some one line. It is an evil incident to high specialization that the average man is ruled out. That it is an evil to have college athletics restricted to the few possibilities of winners any advocate of athletics as a wholesome phase of college activity will agree...
...that every student be placed under the direct care of a properly qualified personal trainer or physical adviser who would direct his daily life, building him up physically as his instructors endeavor to do intellectually. Under such conditions would not the product be improved? Would not the high rank men, the class poets and orators, the Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude men, be more influential in after life as leaders than they are now? The scholar, they young man intellectually gifted, should not be an unhealthy weakling developed only on the side of his nervous system...
...splashing, unfinished and unrhythmical, the eight men being utterly exhausted. This seems to have decided the matter in the eyes of the graduate and undergraduate bodies, the general consensus of opinion being that unless Yale wishes to have her crew suffer continual defeat, a professional coach of the first rank must be obtained and a new system of rowing installed...
With College sports in full swing, one might suppose that the athletic sphere of the student was full. Nevertheless, the University is apparently making a whole-hearted contribution to the "dopesters" of the World Series. Everybody has seized upon the seductive topic of the day, and the rank and file have massed themselves with the sophisticated veterans of baseball, all bent on solving a question of fine deliberation...