Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...much more nearly national in this respect than are the large universities of the West, who draw very largely from the states in which they are located, but who cannot entice thorough representation from the East. The statistical title is one for statisticians to determine; the real claim to rank as our most national university will depend upon an institution's grasp of the spirit that should live in American nationalism and of its ability to consider the interests of all sections even though training the majority of its students from only a few. --Boston Transcript...
That their accomplishment is not fleeting is shown by the records of last year's honor entrance men. Out of twenty-two who received highest honors, six made first group last year, eight made second group, and only two failed to be recorded in the Rank List. These figures partially corroborate President Foster's much attacked contention that early marks point to later success. They go to show that the recognition accorded to this year's Freshmen is an indication not of passing accomplishment but of permanent ability...
...Mark's, last year's leader, is unrepresented this year, and Boston Latin, this year's leader, was in ninth place the year before, Exeter, Country Day School, Groton and St. Paul's School have shown a tendency to hold their respective places. Although one year's high rank may not be a certain measure of a school's efficiency, continued presence in the honor list must mean superior methods of teaching. Hence, although the winning school each year deserves the medal awarded to it, still more justice would be obtained by awarding two or three prizes for the highest...
...research when his interest in astronomy, and his conviction that the altitude and atmosphere of Flagstaff offered an opportunity for perhaps a more intimate scrutiny of the planets than any which had yet been made, led him to begin his great work at that point. He had won rank for his use of the scientific imagination in the field of Japanese occultism and the Oriental psychology. If Mr. Lowell had continued in that field he might, perhaps, have gained less popular celebrity than his investigations and publications in connection with the markings developed by photography on the face...
Brown, Pittsburg and West Point stand in the front rank of Eastern college football elevens, as having so far no defeats to mar their slates. Brown, alone of these three teams, has not had its goal line crossed, the only scoring against it having been done through kicks by Rutgers and Yale. Saturday's results recorded the first defeats of the season for Princeton and Yale. The surprise of the day was the defeat of Tufts by Springfield Y. M. C. A. College, which turned the trick with a marvellous display of open play...