Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshman year the room now numbered 17 Hollis; during his sophomore and junior years 12 Stoughton; and during his senior year 23 Holworthy. He was one of the youngest members of his class. With the advantage of the thorough fitting gained at the Boston Latin School, he took rank as one of its best classical scholars. He excelled in translations, and entered into the spirit of the authors so sympathetically that their best passages became fixed in his memory, and were ever after available for use. He stood among the best in forensics, history, and belles letters. But while successful...
...failure in mathematics lowered his general standing, and he soon gave up any ambition to attain high rank. He studied well such text books as he liked, neglecting the rest. He had no rival in his devotion to miscellaneous literature. He delighted in Scott and Shakespeare. No student of his class when he left college had read as widely. His memory was remarkable...
...decree issued at Berlin on Dec. 7, 1870, by the Royal Minister of Public Instruction, Dr. Von Muhler, granted to subjects of Prussia who had completed the full course of study in a Realschule of the first rank, the right of matriculation in the Philosophical Faculty of any Prussian University for the purpose of studying Mathematics, the Physical and Natural Sciences, or Modern Foreign Languages. By this removal of restrictions which heretofore had practically barred the way to University studies for those who had not received their preparatory training at a Gyninasium, a new set of requisitions for admission...
...student who excelled in a single one of the seven points would have reason to become a candidate, and would be led to do the best he could in the other six branches. The tendency of this competition would be to correct the undue estimate now placed on college rank; to turn the attention of the students to the impartial development of all their powers...
...dueling room is generally over an inn, or beer-house on the outskirts of the town, and at the appointed day is crowded with the different classmen. The classes are distinguished by their colors, each class having red, blue or green caps according to their rank. The different classes never mingle with one another, and it is considered an insult if a red-capped student addresses a blue cap. Each color has its corner in the dueling room, and here the students smoke and drink until the combatants appear. The duelists are dressed and armed in an adjoining room...