Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made. No class has been more patriotic in regard to matters pertaining to the college; no class on the whole has left a better record behind it. In athletics, '85 has been especially prominent, and every college team has received its support. In scholarship it has taken a high rank, and each of the papers can bear witness to the ability and earnest work of the senior boards...
...complete the paper in the time prescribed. Another point to be considered is the effect such an examination has upon a man of nervous temperament, Few can have any conception of the strain upon a man so constituted who is endeavoring to reach a high grade upon the rank list, and yet sees the minutes hurrying by without bringing a commensurate amount of reduction in the unanswered portion of the paper before him. Why it should be that instructors' wish a hastily written and necessarily inaccurate list of answers to a need-lessly long list of questions...
...knowledge needed for producing a great book or a great discovery, are essentially different, and therefore that the talent required in the two cases is also essentially different. At present the Chinese theory is in full possession of the public minds, and it is imagined that a high rank means corresponding abilities and information; and so it does, if we understand abilities and information for examination purposes only...
...shut himself up in his rooms and so acquire monkish habits, lose in worldly knowledge to gain in knowledge of letters: yet at the first glance, this seems to be the only resort for those who wish to graduate from the college with a high standing on the class rank list. But there are men who seem to do both; who seem always ready to idle away an hour or two and yet always are on the rank lists. Such men appear wonders to their less favored classmates, who magnify into cleverness what is only the result of system...
...hope it will begin to consider. Not the least among these is a reform of the marking system, or rather, perhaps, its abolishment and the substitution of some other system of marking. At present, it is acknowledged by all, that the best men do not always get the highest rank, and, in the case of the recipients of scholarships, not always the most deserving men get the highest scholarships. The evils of the marking system are many and great, its advantages few and insignificant. The faculty, we understand, are by a large majority in favor of a change...