Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...justice to every eligible name. In determinating the elections scholarship grades alone have not been the ultimate ground of decision the difficulty of the courses taken and the student's progress throughout his college career have also received due consideration. The names are arranged alphabetically and not according to rank or order of election...
...Clark played the ladies from Everywhere and from Breezeboro with convincing ease. Professor Winthrop, a part easily overacted, was presented by Mr. S. A. Eliot with most delicate skill. Take it all in all. it was a delightful evening and should place the Harvard Dramatic Club in the first rank among those organizations which are worthy to bear the name of the University, and with which it is a real distinction to be associated. ERNEST BERNBAUM...
...whom seven prepared for college at schools in the above list. If it is assumed that each of the institutions enumerated sends ten men a year to Harvard, then their graduates number but one scholar to every 30 men. This is a meagre proportion of high-rank students, when it is considered that about one-tenth of all the upperclassmen are annually awarded scholarships...
...discussion of academic rank, however, the questions of outside interests and standards of success must be considered. The goal for which the men from public schools try is largely high marks and mental training, and to this end they tend to sacrifice athletics and social diversions in general. On the other hand, the boarding-school graduate measures his success as an undergraduate by the prominence which he attains in fields of activity which are not purely scholastic. Consequently men of this group play the greater part in the broadening "outside interests"; and naturally enough do not or cannot devote...
...United States Courts and of State Supreme Courts, one United States Supreme Court Justice; and, if one is to believe the current gossip, another is soon to sit on that bench. The first scholars of late years have been for the most part either educators of high rank or lawyers whose practice brought them into relations with great industrial affairs...