Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...current belief of this generation that the men who eventually amounted to something in the world spent their time in the agreeable dalliance of College society while they were undergraduates and then in their professional schools would turn to their life work, taking there high rank and attaining in the world of men immediate success. This was reinforced in their minds by the gossip of their elders to the effect that first scholars in college drifted into the obscurity of the ill-paid school-teacher or the unknown country parson. The fallacy of this belief and the danger of this...
President Lowell's article on "The Relationship between Rank in College and the Professional Schools" proves beyond question that unless one attains, by hard work, in some department of learning, high standing in college, he cannot hope for great success in his professional school. In the Law School the chance of obtaining a cum laude is almost ten times as great for a man with a summa cum laude in college as for a man who graduated with a plain degree; for the man with a magna cum laude it is six times as great, and for a man with...
...standing in the Senior class. Bennett has been a first group scholar during his entire College course. At the end of his Freshman year he was awarded a Detur, and a Matthews Scholarship, of $300. Last year he received the Saltonstall Scholarship, amounting to $525, for having the highest rank in the Junior class. E. E. Hunt '10, of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, now of the English Department, won the Gambrill Scholarship last year...
...your editorial of October 13, you raised a question about the marking system in courses taken by graduates as well as undergraduates. It is true that the less advanced student sometimes finds himself at a disadvantage. For several years the College Rank List has printed the names of undergraduates only. Yet, when a man is so far advanced as to take courses of a "graduate" nature, he must expect to be measured by standards not of progress, but of attainment; for real scholarship means knowledge and the power to use knowledge. It would be as reasonable to award...
...past the same difficulty has arisen, and in certain cases has been solved by grading the work of undergraduates and graduates upon different scales. This arrangement seems just to all concerned except in one particular. In publishing the Rank List it is scarcely fair to print for the same course an undergraduate's A without differentiating it from the B of a graduate whose knowledge may be far broader and more profound. It would be an easy matter to distinguish these two classes of marks, and base the grades upon a standard of progress instead of absolute attainment...