Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...jury in conjunction with the president is to administer justice, and within that line of duty its jurisdiction shall cover all matters relating to the peace, order, security, and good name of the undergraduate college community, except matters (1), of payments due to or from the college; (2), of rank, appointment, or award; (3), of conduct during recitations, declamations, or lectures; and (4), of attendance at required exercises. But in all these excepted matters the question of deception, or deliberate falsehood, if raised, shall be a distinct issue within the jurisdiction of the jury...
...general effect produced by the book is thoroughly pleasing, and the story will easily take a foremost place among the best romances of late years. We believe that "The Duchess Amelia" places Mr. Wendell in the front rank of our younger authors. No work that has come before our notice of late has given more promise, or shown more strength than this latest addition to American fiction...
...taken during the debate that the sentiment of the students was quite decidedly in favor of the innovation, but that the arguments were much stronger on the side of the classicists. The scholarship of the college was well represented among the speakers by the men who hold the first rank in the senior, junior and sophomore classes, two of these speaking in favor of, and one against the alterations in admission requirements. The speakers were nearly equally divided among the several classes, eighty-seven predominating for the first time this year at the Union debates...
...Servitors, who are supported wholly or partly by the college funds. They were formerly required to wait at dinner on those of higher rank, and perform other menial services, besides being the butt of practical jokes. Their dress was similar to the Commoners, but less expensive...
...forever the completes and most perfect literary embodiments of the conception of the Spirit of Evil. The Devil is unique in that although other Christian ideals have inspired the painter, the architect, and the sculptor, the Devil alone has made a permanent place for himself in the very first rank of literary master-pieces...