Word: ranked
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...True, Chicago students were protesting the use of class rank as a device for Selective Service boards [May 20]. But they protested not because such a device makes their academic "inferiors more vulnerable to conscription" but because it implies that grades could determine human expendability; because using grades for this extra-educational purpose perverts and disrupts the real goal of higher education: it diverts education from urging a student to learn to urging him to make good grades, which is not the same thing...
Franklin Ford, dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, said earlier this week that the Faculty will debate next year whether students rank-in-class ought to be made available to local draft boards...
Ford said he sympathized strongly with the view that the rankings are educationally harmful. "A lot of people dislike the rank in class because it's just another competitive element," he added...
...outspoken champion of Nelson Rockefeller in the same campaign, had hardly ever mentioned each other's names-and for good reason. "There's feeling," notes one G.O.P. chieftain, "that the first guy who throws a real mud ball will get ten back in his face from party rank-and-file members who just don't want the apple cart upset...
There is still time to hold at least a preliminary referendum this year on the question of supplying class rank information for draft purposes. Mimeographed ballots could be in the dining halls by Monday or Tuesday, before most students left Cambridge. There is every reason to seize this opportunity. Seniors, who will be most affected by the administration's final decision, will not be able to vote next fall. They should have a chance to express their opinion now. Even more importantly, the Administration must send out either rank lists or an explanatory letter to students or local boards this...