Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Pennsylvanian in an editorial complaining of how little regard is paid to the University of Pennsylvania as a University fit to rank side by side with Harvard and Yale says...
...Green who is to preach in Appleton chapel next Sunday, is the best known Episcopal clergyman of Providence, and is said to rank next to Dr. Brooks in the list of New England preachers of the Episcopal church...
...week in Ashtabula, O., of consumption, Abner Ernest Strong, A. B., 1885. The deceased will be remembered by his classmates and friends as an excellent scholar, genial, ambitious and energetic in disposition, and of consistent Christian character. Coming to college with but meagre preparation, he at once took high rank for scholarship, which he maintained throughout the course. After graduation he accepted a position as instructor in Groton Academy, but rapidly failing health soon compelled him to retire. The class whose number is now for the first time since graduation broken, loses one of its most promising members...
...repeated or whether Harvard is once more to claim the leadership to which she is entitled by her size, her age, and her prestige. We do not think that the importance of this question is fully appreciated by the members of this university. Harvard must return to the front rank and if she is to do this it will be through the work done during the winter months. We hope that this little reminder will not be forgotten by those who are now working in gymnasium...
...means of the first twenty-five scholars in the present senior class and can pick out eight of these men as being able to get along well without aid from the college funds? Let us trust that this omniscient writer himself is not one of these unfortunate high rank men who "almost invariably shun very valuable courses"! This would-be critic is at present unknown, but it is a pity that there should be even one man among us who thinks that he must ape the habits of men more wealthy than himself. Such a man is not likely...