Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...half year of study two hundred and forty-six Freshmen are still on probation, only sixty-seven of whom have been added as a result of Mid-year grades, seems to indicate with no little degree of certainty that probation has not aided many men in raising their scholastic rank. Certainly it was of no marked advantage to the fifty men who were dropped. And to continue to wield an instrument whose discipline does not accomplish the purpose intended is paternalism in excessive and unscientific doses...
...thought after he has placed himself in the prescribed attitude, there is no way in which he can be sure the idea is someone's erase and not his own. One will never be quite certain, in the telepathic future, whether one is a great original genius, or a rank, out-and-out plagiarist...
...making instruction at a male college in the light of modern knowledge is "refreshingly naive" even as such a suggestion for a female college would be incredibly ridiculous. The indomitable ninety-seven deserve to be Chronicled in song and story as "Harvard's Own" and nobody else's. They rank easily with the "noble Six Hundred," the unconquerable "Three Hundred" of Leonidas, or even those immortal ten thousand who followed Xenophon from Atlanta...
Captain Pfaffmann is paired with Mrs. M. Z. Jessup of Wilmington, Del., and Davies is playing with Miss Lillian Scharman of Brooklyn. The national champion is playing with Mrs. George Wightman of Boston. All of these women players have a high position in the national rank list...
...Vatican officials, and when the aging Bishop of Brooklyn secured him as Secretary he congratulated himself on having one of the most brilliant priests ever originated west of the River Shannon. The Bishop aged. Young Father Mundelein assumed increasing responsibility and received, about every twelve months, a raise in rank, until finally the Pope made him Titular Bishop of an obscure church at Rome...