Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...things seem certain from these facts, namely, that instructors should remember that it is a difficult thing to get the maximum mark in forensics, and that the same scale should be used in all other departments for marking forensics that is used in the English department, so that the rank list in forensics should not be headed by a number of hundreds obtained by men who are not good writers, and whose work would not stand comparison with that of men far below them on the rank list...
...awarding of prize scholarships the class average for the year is considered alone. To decide about prizes usually special examinations are held, involving extra work. or special examinations may be held without assigning additional work. The results of these examinations are combined with the class-room rank in the study, to determine the final decision. Or it is often the case, notably in mathematical honors and the Cordon medal that the prizes are given solely on the basis of regular class work and examinations. Commencement appointments are made on the same basis, i. e., that of the entire average...
...greatest of the African islands. It would be idle to think that this embassy will give new life or new directions to American commerce. On the other hand, the Malagassy gentlemen about to visit Boston are not merely barbarians stranded on a foreign shore, but men of rank, one of whom is likely to become the prime minister of all Madagascar. Propriety, then, requires that the embassy be entertained with decent respect, and that we be more prudent and more generous than were the hosts of the embassy in Europe...
...mother. He entered Rugby at fifteen, in the last year of Dr. Arnold's head-mastership, and was at once placed in the next to the highest form, and would have been placed in the highest had the rules of the school allowed a new student that rank. At eighteen he gained the Balliol scholarship, and, in spite of a year's illuess, carried off the Ireland scholarship, and took his degree, an old-fashioned "Double-First," at the age of twenty-four...
...diligent application. Now will the HERALD insist that a man possessing these qualities "cannot do much to ennoble his profession?" I say the influence a man shall have on his profession depends on the man himself and not upon the manner of entering that profession. The man who attains rank in his profession by "his own native talents and feelings" is not, as the HERALD implies, that one alone who can dispense with the aid of a scholarship, but it is rather the man who is educated by such aid as a scholarship at Harvard gives...