Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...perhaps no immediate question of organization more vital to the athletic interests of the University than the permanent establishment of the Weld Boat Club on a firm financial basis. The training school is of undoubted value, and has in the last two years certainly proved its right to rank as a 'Varsity institution...
...been a political refugee from Russia. An account of his dramatic escape from prison in St. Petersburg is given in Stepniak's "Underground Russia." Prince Kropotkin has lived quietly in England for many years and as a man of science, particularly as a geographer and geologist, he takes high rank...
...Lyman went to Europe, but on hearing of the outbreak of the Civil War, returned to America and was commissioned aide de camp, with rank of lieutenant colonel, on the staff of Gen. Meade, then commanding the Army of the Potomac. His gallant and meritorious services were officially recognized, and at the close of the war he returned to his home with a reputation for bravery won by hard service...
Freshmen and Specials are frequently dropping out, so that mere expulsion is no punishment at all, especially if their rank is likely to necessitate their withdrawal at the end of the term...
...cannot congratulate ourselves too much that we have had the privilege of hearing a course of lectures by M. Ferdinand Brunetiere of the French Academy. M. Brunetiere is unquestionably in the very first rank of living critics; he has given us, in pure and eloquent French, his own observations on Moliere, whom he considers to be the greatest writer of the most glorious century in French literature...