Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prone to believe that athletics have a deteriorating influence on the scholarship of the men who engage in them, will have his doubts dispelled by reading carefully the statistics published in this morning's CRIMSON of the rank obtained by those who have played on university and class teams during the years 1885-86 and 1886-87. These statistics were compiled with the greatest of care by the athletic committee, and are therefore as accurate and trustworthy as any statistics on such a subject can be. In nearly every case the standing of students on the university crew, nine, eleven...
...committee on athletics to the faculty of Harvard may be of interest. The thorough investigation of the committee leaves no room for doubt that athletics have had a beneficial effect upon the scholarship of men here. From the first table in the report which shows the college rank of the university teams in 1885-86, it appears that the average percentage of the four college teams was 72. That of the crew was 69, the Mott Haven team 72, the nine 74, the lacrosse team 76. Only one of these 56 men had a mark of less than...
...Alumni Records of Wesleyan has just been published and is the fullest work of the kind which has ever appeared. Not only is the name, time of birth and death of the student given, but his place of birth, where he prepared for college, his class and rank in college, his subsequent career, and if the man is dead, the place of his death, and the name and address of a near relative. It also states his honors and degrees, if any, and if the man has married, when, where, and to whom, number of children and their names...
...wonder that they appeared to come direct from a deity. It was not only from the near-lying states of Greece that the people came to consult the oracle at Delphi, but from states situated far away. There came to the shrine people in every rank of life. Kings sent their envoys with rich presents to seek aid from the oracle, and states sent their ambassadors to ask aid in the direction of public affairs. The temple could not but become immensely wealthy with such a revenue continually pouring into it. The riches excited the cupidity of Xerxes...
...understand that Mr. F. L. Dunne, the prominent Boston tailor is now building up a large business through the principal cities of the west. Mr. Dunne has had uniform success with his patrons here at Harvard and has established a reputation which places his firm in the front rank of the merchant tailors who supply the demand for exclusive and novel goods...