Word: rankness
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...tardiness with which the order of our semiannuals was announced this year has brought out complaints loud and long from even our habitual leaders on the rank-list. It may be a matter of small interest to our ever-respected Faculty that a general change in the order of examinations is made during the week preceding the semiannuals; that certain men are thereby invited to three or four examinations in the first few days of our festivities, and that of necessity the brevity of their preparation is likely to be rivalled only by that of the answers in their blue...
...existence of a society superior to that in which he moves, although he may manfully assert his precedence before those whom fortune has placed beneath him. The impulse of every young man whose allowance or antecedents permit him to mingle with those whose social position is assured, is to rank himself at once with the best of them; and this impulse frequently leads him to the conclusion - to quote the words used the other day by a friend of mine - that "business is degrading...
...take a degree whenever they had passed all their examinations, whether in three or five years. All students must obtain over 40% to avoid a condition; an average of 50% for a degree; over 60% on each examination for an "A" division; over 70% as an average for the Rank List; 75% to be a candidate for honors for an Essay at Commencement; 80% for a Disquisition; 85% for a Dissertation; 90% for an Oration; 95% for a "Summa cum laude." No marks between these tens, except the ones mentioned, should be given...
...afterwards attained great prominence in public life. For instance, in a list of one hundred and fifty five Presidents at Oxford there are thirty who are marked as M. P.'s, or as in some way connected with the government, while almost seventy have some distinction either of rank or in the government, in the Universities or the Church. Among the officers at Cambridge have been Macaulay, Earl Grey, Chief Justice Cockburn, Bulwer Lytton, and Archbishop Trench; at Oxford, Earl Stanhope, Gladstone, the Earl of Elgin, the Duke of Newcastle, Robert Lowe, the Earl of Dufferin; there may be other...
...warmly grateful to our instructors for their kindness in voluntarily increasing their duties. Old Harvard certainly deserves to be the largest real University in the country, for she seems never to tire of increasing and improving the opportunities she offers for intellectual development, and is doing her best to rank high, in more than mere numbers, among the educational institutions of the world. We have good reason from the past and present to predict a great advance for her in the future...