Word: 12th
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...money to be made, more and more people seem to be looking forward to the green, not the gala. You don’t need to be an economics concentrator versed in game theory to understand demand; with friends from other houses, seniors trying to get to that elusive 12th formal, and guests visiting from out of town, there will always be people clamoring for admission. Buying formal tickets simply to sell them, however, is a cynical money-making enterprise, a watering down of house spirit, and a disincentive to actually attend the event. Expectations are set unrealistically high when...
...Salve Regina taking home top honors.In the A division, the Harvard team of sophomore skipper Matt Donelan and freshman crew William White in races one through six, along with the efforts of second-years skipper Colin Santangelo and crew Florence On in races seven through nine, took home a 12th place finish.“The wind was really shifty this weekend in both direction and pressure,” Santangelo said. “There were a few races out there that really threw me for a loop.”Their B division counterparts matched the A division?...
...Simon Gawlik. “Coming off the line, Northeastern hung with us for a good bit, but we were able to get up on them and continuously increase our margin. It seemed like we handled the conditions a little bit better.”The convincing win, the 12th in a row over Northeastern in the varsity eight, gave Harvard the 21st Charlie Smith Cup and its sixth win of the season.The Harvard second and third varsity eight got in on the fun as well, finishing 1-2 in the second varsity race. The Crimson...
...have tended to be higher, and student-teacher ratios lower, in rural areas compared to cities and suburbs. Like elsewhere in the United States, rural public education is failing its students, but perhaps less so. On the 2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress reading assessment, only a third of 12th-grade public-school students in rural areas scored at or above proficient, consistent with the national average. Rural dropout rates are higher than in the suburbs and lower than in cities.On one hand, the success of public education in any setting is largely the result of quantitative factors that influence...
...Harvard also competed at the Wellesley Invitational on the Charles River on Sunday. The MIT-hosted event saw the Crimson place 12th in the 16-team field...