Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that Harvard and Princeton might lock horns on the great questions of destiny in the next world, but that Yale is satisfied for the present with giving the country sound law through her Chief Justice Waite, enacting wise laws by her Senator Evarts, constructing a navy worthy of our rank among nations and our proper defence through her Secretary of the Navy, Whitney, and rising to the best traditions of the diplomacy, scholarship, wit and eloquence of the American embassy to England through her Minister Phelps. 'Rah to Yale...
...industry, good conduct and zealous effort shall be deemed by the president and dean of this college to be meritorious students and entitled to encouragement and support; it being however, my wish that said money should not be awarded to any student solely by reference to his rank or standing as a scholar, but that regard should also be had to earnest and honest endeavor to attain excellence. The scholarship hereby established shall be called the 'Price Greenleaf Scholarship...
...slight, but nevertheless important change in college control has within a few months been quietly effected among us. The transference of the oversight over student attendance at lectures from the office to the individual instructors, must be counted worthy to rank among the great strides made of late toward a perfect system of college government. Just as in politics, the nearer the government is to the people governed, the more effective it becomes, so in the case before us. The great reason for this new method of regulating attendance, lies in the fact that each instructor is much better qualified...
...thirty students, and as a number of men have been turned away, there must in many cases be a choice between Roman Law or no honors. This fact has led to the complaint, for a thorough knowledge of Latin is required in Roman Law, especially so for a high rank. Thus, men with a slight knowledge of Latin, although they may be eminently fitted in other ways, are practically shut out, by the exclusiveness of History 15, from their work for honors...
...dignity of a student to be thus daily controlled, let me merely call attention to our great military educational establishments. The officers in the war academy and in the artillery school, who are, on the average, much older than university students, who are in possession of offices and rank, and are many of them married men, must daily put up with having their attendance at course of instruction marked. - N. Y. Post...