Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last fall, several law students protested the sole use of class rank in selecting members of honorary activities such as the Harvard Law Review and the Legal Aid Society. Since such membership often aids in obtaining choice employment offers, the protestors claimed that it added greatly to the strain on law students...
...hire "pushers" to jam the passengers into the steamy cars. A lack of sewerage results in the use of "vacuum trucks," the odoriferous tank cars that daily pump out the cesspools of the cities. And while the Japanese are better off economically than all other Asians, worldwide they still rank only 21st (after the Italians) when it comes to per capita income: $740 a year. The average Japanese family of 4.05 persons lives in only 2.94 rooms, and only one Japanese in 46 has an auto...
Furthermore, in the areas most critical to a student the rank group is not considered at all. Prospective employers or graduate schools are interested in transcripts, and since 1951 transcripts have included pluses and minuses...
What is significant about the rank group, however, is that it reflects the College's attitude on grades. Up to now the College has said that a B--is worth as much as a B+, thus tacitly suggesting that a student can spend his time as profitably in a non-academic activity as in an effort to eke out another half point...
...that, same day, February 21, the Columbia student council will poll undergraduates on the question. "Should the University compile and release class rank to draft boards?" The Council first planned the referendum early last semester, before the faculty had taken any action. What would have been a plea for action (assuming the tally will be against class rank) is now reduced to an opportunity to support the College faculty...