Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prominence of tonight's speakers affords a clear indication of the position at present occupied by the Harvard Engineering Department. With growing faculties, more scholarships, and improved facilities, the department should soon rank first in this country. This rapid development adds increased importance to the annual reunions of the Engineering Societies...
...following names are arranged alphabetically, and not according to order of election or rank in scholarship...
...Cornell and Dartmouth which will be played in the Boston Arena at the same time, will finally determine the league standing. At present Cornell is the only team undefeated and, judging from previous scores, will probably carry off the championship. The Harvard seven has lost one game, and will rank second if Yale is defeated. If not the two teams will be tied for second place...
...past, men who have shuffled through a secondary school curriculum based on the Harvard examinations, or worked for a summer with a tutor experienced at "spotting" questions, have been able to enter the Freshman class. On the other hand, students, who have maintained a high rank of scholarship in the work prescribed at a school not primarily fitting its graduates for Harvard, have been seriously handicapped, if not actually deterred from submitting to the test...
Shortly after being graduated from Harvard, Mr. Higginson went to Europe where he remained until 1862, engaged in the study of law. In 1863 he obtained a commission as a second lieutenant in the First Massachusetts Cavalry with which he served until the end of the war, rising in rank to brevet-major. For a period of nine months he was a prisoner at Libby prison...