Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said: In that period between the dynastic conquest and popular revolt in Germany, the lives of both Goethe and Schiller are principally laid, the one a patrician and of high rank, the other a plebian of poor parents. Goethe was born at Frankfort on the Main, August 28, 1749. His father was not very rich and had a meagre education which he gained mostly from travel; his mother was quite different, for she was a woman of broad intellect and a kind heart, and seemed to the young poet more like a companion than a mother. When only ten years...
There will be an hour examination in N. H. 4 on Friday December 20. The examination will be held in Sever and will determine the rank for the first half year. Examination will be held in History 12 next week, and in History 11 Friday, December...
Judson, '80, after leaving college, entered the U. S. Army. At present he is in the engineering courps, and is stationed at one of the forts in New York harbor for the purpose of making an especial study of the modern torpedo system. He holds the rank of first lieutenant...
...made among us-some of them sadly to be deplored-but we believe that the unprejudiced intelligent opinion of the country places our university where she belongs at the head of American educational institutions. The best of advantages and methods are our own, and Harvard has always taken first rank for her freedom and her breadth. Despite the sneers of croakers and wisacres, she is today as she has been ever, the mother of cultured manly sons...
Frazer was poor and was working his way through college. Although he did not rank with the highest, yet his work showed great earnestness. His father's ambition, besides having his son go through college, was to collect a library for him, and he had obtained nearly five hundred volumes when fire destroyed them all. Again he set to work, and had collected about five hundred more volumes, when this sad accident occured. The class of '88 of the Boston Latin school have passed resolutions expressing their sorrow at losing so promising a member of their class...