Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ingraham '25, captain-elect of the University tennis team, has been placed at number four in the Intercollegiate Rank List, which has just been issued. Paired with K. S. Pfaffmann '24, last year's captain, he was third in the doubles ranking. Pfaffmann was ranked at number 12 in the singles competition, with Alden Briggs '25 as number...
...first time in the history of intercollegiate tennis, the highest laurels in both branches were won by Westerners. Wallace Scott, of the University of Washington, carried away the singles title with Lewis M. White and Louis Thalbeimer of the University of Texas combining to make up the ranking doubles team. The East, however, holds a distinct edge on the entire rank list, with Arnold Jones brilliant Yale captain, and the Columbia team of Jerome Lang and Frank Anderson in the runner-up positions...
...rank list in singles follows...
...America his prototype simply did not exist. In New York he might have appeared with least outrage to the imagination. Even in Chicago his tendencies could have been understood as the blind graspings of virlle but untutored genius. But in Boston, of all places, the appearance of this rank innovator is nothing short of cataclysmic...
...their foremen and superintendents and brought them over to our Psycho-Educational Clinic for intelligence tests. The results ought not to have been taken as showing that anyone we found is a genius. Intelligence tests do not reveal genius and are not intended to prove that those who rank high on them are going to set the world on fire. A high score in an intelligence test indicates a marked capacity to learn...