Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...essential. A class is an unwieldy unit because of its size, but its leaders should not find difficulty in making of its unified body because of a strong and general community of interest. Every undergraduate feels a strong degree of class patriotism. He desires to see his class rank high in all undergraduate activities, athletic and otherwise...
Neither the Harvard or Yale nines are in the first rank of college teams this year. Harvard has lost nine games, won seven, and tied one. Yale's record is 12 games won, 13 lost, and three tied. The weakness of the Harvard team can be laid to two causes: up to the time that McLaughlin was first used as a pitcher there was a great weakness in the pitching department, for Hicks was the only man who could be depended upon; and about the time that McLaughlin was discovered, Aronson was injured and since then there has been little...
...self-con- tained as to be impervious to apparent estimates of success on the part of the general public. But there is another cause for the distortion of values. Undergraduates are prone to believe that athletic sports are a good measure of red blood, while high rank in studies indicates only industrious plodding. They often rate the two occupations much as savages do hunting and husbandry. That athletics develop essential moral qualities is undoubtedly true; but that is no sufficient reason why intellectual things should be undervalued; and it was the feeling that either out tests for rank were wrong...
...above quotation from the report of the committee on tests for rank shows that the Faculty has come to appreciate what has long been a source of exasperation to the undergraduates. The situation is recognized, then, but no visible diminution of theses has resulted, nor are we aware that their use has in any way been made more systematic...
...account of a great man, the memory of whose life and achievements is still fresh, is certain to prove stimulating and to induce emulation. The story of a Harvard graduate, who was at once an exceptional executive, a scientist of the first rank, and a generous benefactor of the University, must have for Harvard students an interest both absorbing and inspiring. The life of the late Professor Alexander Agassiz was such a one: his energy, his executive ability, and his intellectual attainments won for him an international reputation. To have done as much as Professor Agassiz accomplished in each...