Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...disparity in the marks was very great. There was to be found not even a tendency toward equality. For the twelve highest marks of the same men in the two courses, there was an average difference of over seven per cent. The numbers of men who got on the rank list were respectively thirty-two and twenty-five, and the first twenty-five were very nearly the same in the two courses. Of the two courses in question, if there was any difference in the difficulties present, that difference would favor our position rather than weaken...
...Scholars of highest rank from each of the upper classes...
...trouble to glance over the list of those who have led their classes during past years, he will find the names of some of the finest men who have ever been graduated from an institution of learning. Let the undergraduate look at the men who have taken the highest rank within his short memory, and he will be convinced of this. Scholarship has none too much recognition at Harvard, not so much by any means as it deserves. These men might not be representatives of the mass of students, but they would be the conservative element, and would serve...
...look at the question from a Harvard standpoint. Are our athletes conspicuous for a superabundance of bodily strength gained at the expense of a corresponding loss in mental power? Hardly, we think, and we are borne out in this assertion by the prosaic but convincing figures of the yearly rank lists, Are our students ever so carried away by the fascination of sport as to suffer any appreciable interference with their regular college duties? We must again answer in the negative, for the men who have won seats in our boats, or places upon our nines are to be found...
...quite 66 years old at the time of his death. At the early age of 15 he entered Harvard and graduated with the class 1838. He at once entered the Military Academy at West Point from which he graduated four years later, the head scholar of his class. This rank entitled him to a position in the Engineer Corps of the army with which he served for seven years, part of the time as assistant professor at the academy. In 1849 he left the army to accept the position of professor of engineering in the then newly established Lawrence Scientific...