Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Combined weight rank, including both distinguished and adequate departments, in the report of the Committee on Graduate Instruction of the American Council on Education...
Numerous writers at different times have attempted to rank American graduate schools in order of their eminence, employing one set of criteria or another. No one, however, as far as the writer knows, has made such an extensive collection and presentation of possible criteria for such an evaluation as Laurence Foster in his recent volume, "The Functions of a Graduate School in a Democratic Society...
...total of 53 different institutions are found in one or more of these tables. Only sixteen institutions, however, are named in over half of them. These sixteen Mr. Foster has undertaken to rank according to a composite index based upon 26 of his 28 measures. In deriving this composite index, however, he has added together indiscriminately men points, and percentages and inadvertently has really assigned chance weights to the different components which seems hardly justified--certainly he does not attempt to justify them in his derivation of the final compostite table...
...Williamstown's conferences are generally attended by earnest souls who would like to see something done about the ills of the world, rather than by the heads of governments who might actually do something. But Boston's conference on distribution had for its rank-&-file attendants some 750 business men actively engaged in distribution, had such headline speakers as President Percy Straus of R. H. Macy & Co., General R. E. Wood, president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., President Oswald Knauth of Associated Dry Goods Corp., Cosmetician Elizabeth Arden, Professor Paul H. Nystrom of Columbia University, President Karl T. Compton...
...thick that in some places it was visible as a whitish cloud above them. Where it appeared, leaves turned first purplish-brown, then black; stems withered, so that they broke at the touch, oozing a pus-colored liquid; the potatoes, when dug, were soggy and black with putrescence, rank-smelling...