Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real question is whether spending more money to make a better military force would really make a better country. I would be the last to disparage the military art. It is an honorable and patriotic calling of the highest rank. But I can see no merit in any unnecessary expenditure of money to hire men to build fleets and carry muskets when international relations and agreements permit the turning of such resources into the making of good roads, the building of better homes, the promotion of education, and all the other arts of peace which minister to the advancement...
Four graduates of the College are among the 22 students, who, as the highest men on the rank list published by the University, were chosen as editors of the Law Review for this year. The men who edit the Law School publication are picked annually, scholastic standing alone being considered in the appointments...
...sure you do not wish to encourage the average boy of 16 to leave school, believing that he is prepared to rise to the highest rank among bankers and business men. Therefore I submit...
Last week J. K. Rpbison completed four years' service as Chief of the Bureau of Naval Engineering. In that post he had approved the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil leases. With his quitting the post of Chief of the Bureau of Engineering, he lost his temporary rank of Rear Admiral and reverted to his permanent rank of Captain. His application to retire with his temporary rank was denied by the President. He can never achieve the rank of Rear Admiral now, since he will be 55 in a few weeks and according to rule no one is given...
...things, moreover, it does not appear that the fourteen undergraduates whose names appear as editors of the CRIMSON at the present time are peculiarly qualified to give expert guidance in matters pertaining to the curriculum. Only two of the fourteen are in the three highest groups of the college rank list. Nine are in the three lowest groups. The remaining three have scholastic records so low that their names do not appear in the rank list at all. On the whole, therefore, it would seem as if the editors have rated the Faculty somewhat higher than the Faculty has ranked...