Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...principalship in a Massachusetts academy, with a salary of $800 may be filled by a senior or a graduate with good rank in the classics...
...generously equipped with scholarships which benevolent people have contributed for the assistance of needy students. Of more than seven hundred undergraduates probably over one half need, or think they need, pecuniary assistance. These scholarships are assigned upon the basis of the student's percentages appearing on the annual rank list. In such a large college the competition is necessarily great. Those who have been fitted at the Harvard preparatory schools of the Eastern States generally have the advantage from the start. Scholarships being regarded as prizes for high marks are often eagerly sought after whether needed or not. Many...
...design of would be benefactors of Harvard that their bequests should become prize scholarships to be fought over by the competitors on a petty rank list? Is it conducive to the development of manhood and of scholarship for its own sake that students must become the slaves of annual marks and that the difference of one per cent should debar them from obtaining needed assistance at one of the most trying periods of their lives...
...greater need, if the public are to be admitted to this lecture, of urging that sufficient space be reserved for students. Thanks are due to the Finance Club for the energetic efforts they have made through the winter to bring men to lecture before the college, who hold high rank in questions of finance and economics...
...send an agent West in the spring for the purpose of advancing his trade interests in that section of the country. Mr. Dunne has always had uniform success with his patrons and has established a reputation among college men which places his firm in the front rank of the merchant tailors who supply the demand made by students of the country for exclusive and novel goods...