Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this long and honorable record is now to be closed and our policy reversed; if our degree is to be degraded by our own free act, we shall be compelled to abandon our position as leaders in American scholarship and to take our places without excuse in the second rank. It must never be forgotten that, with all our improvement, we have not yet reached any such height of scholarship that we can afford to lower our standard-indeed we cannot lower it without positive discredit...
...that was graduated at Harvard College. The first graduate was Benjamin Woodbridge of New bury. From the first Commencement in 1652, till 1773. degrees were conferred on the students, and their names arranged in the catalogue, not according to age, or scholarship, or the alpheber, but according to the rank their families held in society. This Benjamin Woodbridge was born in England but came to America in 1634 with his brother. He had been a member of Magdalen college in Oxford. Eng., but chose to complete his collegiate education in New England. Mr. Woodbridge was a preacher and poet. From...
...fact is that these concerts are not given primarily for the students. Major Higginson, if we are correctly informed, established these concerts that the university town of Cambridge might enjoy the same musical privileges as the city, and he further desired that officers of the University of certain rank, and the descendants of such officers, should be given the first opportunity to get tickets. This is what is now done. The rest of the tickets, over two-thirds of all there are, are placed on sale to the public...
...nine commencement orators, elected from the senior class by its members. Hamilton appoints the highest third of the graduating class, together with the Pruyn, Head and Kirkland prize winners. Brown selects for delivery the best ten orations from those submitted by the highest three-fifths of the class in rank. In most of the other Eastern colleges the number of orators is from eight to twelve...
...statistics on rank, published in yesterday's CRIMSON, may be taken as a criterion of the seriousness of a student's work during the four years of his college life. The varying percentages of marks in the five grades show a striking and gratifying tendency toward more earnest work in each succeeding year. In the Freshman year less than 16 per cent, of the marks assigned to '89 reached A, while almost 3 per cent. fell into grade E. A steady increase in the A's brings the per cent. to more than 22 in the Senior year...