Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...times as many knights as officers, and that the position held in the Legion by President Fallieres is but two grades higher than that which was conferred upon President Lowell. A comparatively large number of Americans have received the red ribbon of the knights but those who hold the rank of officer are extremely...
...lives to the study of economic problems. The qualifications that make a god teacher and the talents that make a good scholar are quite distinct. It is the possession of both in such an unusual degree that places the author of the new "Principles of Economics" in the front rank of university professors...
...hereine who was always supposed to be the daughter of an old "Churman" finds that she really has a fortune, and old castle and a title. Thus after three hours, or rather eighteen years, of unappreciated worth she finally wins the young lord who could not marry beneath his rank but who had always loved...
When one considers the relative importance of the four major sports and the minor ones, no fair-minded critic will question the right of Cornell's athletes to rank first this year. Yale and Pennsylvania are the only other universities that ever won such high honors in a single year, and when it is considered that Cornell, had some claim to the baseball championship as well, which is here awarded to Princeton, it may be stated that Cornell's 1911 record is just a little bit superior to anything ever done by either Pennsylvania or Yale...
...After he was graduated from the College in 1861, he took up the study of chemistry in the Lawrence Scientific School. In November of the same year he left the school to become second lieutenant in the First Massachusetts Cavalry. A year later he was honorably discharged with the rank of captain and immediately re-entered the service as major of the Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry, with which he entered Richmond on April 3, 1865. Two months later he resigned and returned to the Scientific School. That fall he entered the Medical School, from which he took his degree...