Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undergraduates. There are many reasons for this lamentable attitude towards scholarship, not least among which is the actual character of many of the examination papers. That this has been recognized is proved by the appointment some time ago of a committee from the Faculty "to consider how tests for rank in College may be made a more generally recognized measure of intellectual power...
After amassing quantities of material upon this subject, the committee issued an extremely interesting report, to be found in the last number of the Graduates' Magazine, in which appeared the statement that "the committee feels that in awarding high rank or distinction, emphasis should be laid more largely than it is today on ability to deal with facts and principles, as compared with information acquired and memory." This is very welcome announcement, for the useless and irksome task of temporarily assimilating a quantity of trivial details in order to obtain a high mark, has proved a most effectual deterrent...
...concensus of opinion that rank in the Law School does indicate future success, and these figures show that such rank varies in proportion to rank in College. If this conclusion, namely, that high grade in studies while in College is a direct indication of later success, were firmly impressed upon the undergraduate body, it would do much to restore studies to the place that they should logically occupy in a College man's life...
...result of this game will finally decide the ranking of Yale, Dartmouth, and Cornell. If Cornell wins, that team will rank third; if Dartmouth wins, Yale, Dartmouth and Cornell will...
...memorial to Charles Eliot Norton '46, late Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts, Francis Bullard '86, his nephew, has presented to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts a collection of engravings which rank very high as specimens of that...