Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heading the list of Honorary Referees for the dinner last night was the name of Alvan T. Fuller, governor of Massachusetts. With him in the same capacity was Malcolm E. Nichols '99, Mayor of Boston. William F. Garcelon '94, a hurdler of first rank in the Intercollegiates of 1898 and 1894, in his office as official starter, told of the time when hurdles were hurdles, and when a hurdler had to be a high-jumper...
...lumping together of a greater number of individuals than a rival community can boast is not in itself a contribution to happiness. Not even as an aid to advertising is a high relative rank important, since every business man shrewd enough to be successful looks for facts behind the figures...
...providing facilities for summer tutorial reading, the authorities are simply raising this vagabond branch of the University to the standard set by the College. The Summer School will now become something more than a short cut to a degree or a life raft for low rank students...
...amount was pared to $175,000,000 in order to improve the bill's chances; $75,000,000 of this amount was set aside for cotton to bring the South into line, and a bitter fight raged. The North and East turned on the bill calling it rank subsidy. Congressman Tincher (who had a more modest $100,000,000 plan) fiercely attacked the Haugen bill, and certain Southerners denounced it as unworkable. Sound and fury swelled unabated...
...architects from all parts of the United States. There are in the Institute to divisions: That of the Members, comprising the large majority of those belonging to the Institute, and that of the Fellows. The latter compose less than one-tenth of the entire membership, and elevation to the rank of Fellow, is an honor conferred upon comparatively...