Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Second.-The rank list is made up from the marks of each student in four elective courses. No account is made of any other elective which he may have taken, even though he has done as faithful work in an extra as in his regular courses. Every hour not devoted to the required four electives, however well spent in other courses, must tend to lower the student's rank. He is thus discouraged from taking any more electives than the number absolutely necessary for his degree...
...being protected by vast oceans, requires no military discipline in her schools and colleges. The great strength of Germany is entirely due to this system; the result is that a knowledge of military tactics is general. In France the training schools are so arranged that comparatively few attain high rank and proficiency in the army. But the German system of schools imparts a broader education, together with a good knowledge of army tactics to its soldiers, and the warlike propensities of the students are exhibited by their constantly dueling with one other...
...request of the Chinese government, five Chinese youths were admitted in September to West Point, and five to Annapolis. All of them are of the rank of princes...
...consisting of a chapel, library, dining or great hall, quadrangle and dormitories. Balliol and Merton divide the honor of being the oldest colleges, as the former was founded in 1260 and the latter four years afterward. The examinations for entrance to Balliol are unusually "stiff" and her graduates generally rank high upon the honor-roll in the university examinations. Merton boasts of the finest chapel, the choir and stained-glass being particularly good, and it is of this college that Dr. Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, was warden. Oriel, founded in 1324, ranks next in antiquity...
...juniors at Brown University have this year repeated the protest made a year ago against appointing speakers to the junior exhibition on their general rank, rather than upon their oratorical and rhetorical standing, and refuse to hold an exhibition if the old system is adhered...