Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that studies, which are after all the fundamental reason anyone comes here, are not relegated to a secondary position. The average undergraduate, and anyone who gets into Harvard is at least average, is well qualified to spend most of his afternoons in athletic recreation, pass his studies with whatever rank he's set upon as his goal, and still have a couple of evenings off for what he calls amusement...
...open, and the Academic Procession will emerge: a colorful sight with its many-hued academic gowns, including the scarlet of Oxford and Cambridge, worn by a number of the Harvard faculty as well as by many of the guests. The various groups will march in the inverse order of rank, the professors first and President Conant and President Lowell marching last. The procession will be headed by the Sheriffs of Middlesex and Suffolk: a time-honored custom dating from the period when the boisterousness of Commencement made advisable the presence of representatives...
...Jewish-blooded Captain Wolfgang Fuerstner, the Army officer responsible for construction of Berlin's excellent Olympic Village, had blown out his brains. Non-Aryan Captain Fuerstner had hoped in vain that, as a reward for his work for the Olympics, he would be permitted to retain his Army rank, something now denied in Germany to all non-Aryans...
...industrial Barcelona, the proletarian "Pittsburgh of Spain" and the country's only modern metropolis, last week took for its Region of Catalonia the autonomous rank of a semi-collectivist State by proclamation, acclaim and much frenzied carousing and shooting in the streets. The great city's exultant Communists. Anarchists and Socialists still were friendly to Spain's Madrid regime in theory but in practice they had carried Catalonia off by herself on the political loose. Zealots plastered up everywhere manifestoes reading PRIVATE PROPERTY IS CONFISCATED AND COLLECTIVIZED! This meant that doors of wealthy and middle class homes...
...Ambassador to the U. S. Alexander A. Troyanovsky, escorting Soviet People's Commissar for Food Industry Anastas Mikoyan. Capitalists never had a more implacable enemy than Commissar Mikoyan. He is a genuine, bomb-throwing Old Bolshevik, who, with the final Soviet victory, rose to high Communist rank in the Caucasus. Last week he politely drew out President Gay on operations of the Exchange, was surprised to be told that U. S. banks have no memberships on the Big Board...