Word: arene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before last year's Ivy League volleyball tournament, Harvard Coach Wayne Lem proclaimed, "We aren't going to be the doormats of the Ivy League anymore...
...happy consequences of this quality control is that it is self-perpetuating. Have you ever noticed how few dumb people are on campus? This is not just because they aren't accepted, but because they don't even bother to try to come here. They know that they wouldn't make the grade, they know they wouldn't fit in. And when dumb people do come here, we generously instruct them. The smartest Harvard students and professors rally to the cause. With clever phrases and melodious hymns we gracefully expose their abysmal dumbness and assert our intellectual primacy. In this...
...Aren't we smart! Jonathan R. Nebeker Harvard Republican Club Officer
...often," foundation president Ernest L. Boyer wrote in the foreword to the 360-page report, "universities give the highest rewards to those faculty members who may not be committed to giving their best efforts to the students." Harvard undergraduates--in case those watching recent tenure decisions have been wondering--aren't the only people concerned that teaching is getting short shrift...
...would think they're talking about the team's hardest playing defenseman. Leading scorers usually aren't followers of the Protestant work ethic...