Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seventy-five seniors entitled to commencement parts, sixty-five were originally posted as having that distinction on account of their rank, and ten have since been added on the ground of honorable mention...
...suitable for the other. They were all to be of the same length, capable of being read in ten minutes, and that, according to Prof. Hill's estimate, was about ten pages of ordinary writing. The parts are selected by the commencement committee entirely, irrespective of the question of rank. Professor Hill appointed Monday, February 19, at 4 P. M., as the time for handing in the subjects. The written parts must be deposited on or before May 1 ; or, if they are intended as a substitute for two forensics, before the third Wednesday of April...
...Yale Record argues forcibly in favor of inter-collegiate athletic games between Yale and Harvard, "at which the winners in Yale's games will meet Harvard's champions. This meeting would at once raise track athletics to the prominence which they deserve, and the Harvard-Yale athletic games would rank with the Harvard ball game and the Princeton foot-ball match. The expenses of the meeting would be more than covered by the gate-money, and the experiment would involve no financial danger. The question at least deserves a thorough discussion in both the papers and by all interested...
...honor, it is nevertheless true, as experience also has proved, that there are some few students who, if they were not watched, would not be able to resist the temptation to fill out their examination books by some unlawful assistance; and taking into consideration the deturs, scholarships, commencement rank, membership of the Phi Beta Kappa, - all of which depend primarily upon the marks at examinations - it is only fair to the others that such students should be effectually prevented from receiving more than they deserve. The presence of the proctor is no insult to our honor. It is a maxim...
...have of not giving marks, as this needs no comment. But a mark alone is always unsatisfactory enough if the man does not know in what his book is weak. The only way to have examinations do any good besides fixing, though with a delightful degree of uncertainty, his rank, is for the instructor to return to every student his blue-book with corrections. This may entail a little more labor on the instructor, but the satisfaction felt by the students will amply repay the extra trouble. This is already done by some instructors, but the practice...