Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charlie! The new Rank List is out. I don't see your name on it," says one average undergraduate to another of the same species...
This man Charlie, being only an average undergraduate, can not be held up as a paragon of either wit or wisdom. But he is one of a group which tends to regard the Rank List in more or less the same way they regard the Roll of Honor of the Great War's dead; the names on it are to be respected, but not too greatly envied. Beneath these mixed feelings the cause will be suggested by an analysis of the list...
...distinction in outside activities. Of the 89 who have achieved no such distinction some have shared the benefits of extra-curriculum work without winning laurels. But there are still others and they are too often taken by unthinking students as representative of the entire upper groups on the Rank List who have never entered the larger life of the University at all. They may be said to pursue a "Rank List" ideal, for they do nothing but study...
...their day; yet the conviction is now widespread that their's was a terribly warped and limited existence, and not a pattern to be copied. It would be a mistake to attribute too much sour-grape sentiment to the average undergraduate who refuses to do obeisance to a pure "Rank List" ideal. The ideal college man is an earnest student--but he is more than that. He would be a man--full and complete man--but the "Rank List" ideal too often produces only partial men, great heads on puny bodies, mere walking and talking dictionaries of facts with...
...catalogue. It is not the purpose of this editorial to urge the benefits of extra-curriculum activities against those of scholarly devotion. It is the conjunction of the two that is essential, and this is the notable lack among a certain group of men of high standing on the Rank List...