Word: best
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Because many of the runners were close together throughout the race, the final outcome was not decided until the last 200 yards. Although the score was closer than expected, Coach McCurdy felt that the varsity had turned in its best performance of the year yesterday...
...much money to go around. Very likely the Administration feels that athletics are already receiving their proper share of University funds. A balance in academic and athletic expenditures must be achieved; and the Administration has (according to its own lights) defined this balance so as to serve the best interests of all concerned...
Today, however, the situation could possibly become reversed. Lehigh boasts a one win, one tie record against fairly impressive schools, and is heavily equipped with one of its best passing attacks in recent years. Defensively, the team has prevented both Gettysburg and Delaware from gaining more than 100 yards this season...
...example: the English Department would be inadequate, at best, if it had to hire men who wanted only to teach freshman English to engineering students. On the other hand, a 600-man liberal arts college (that is the number of students in Lehigh's Arts and Sciences College) would find it difficult to offer the salary and facilities which Lehigh, as a larger institution, can give to English instructors who are willing to spend a small amount of their time teaching the engineers...
...Administration version of reality, then, relies mainly on the suppression of dissent. Papa knows best, and children should be seen and not heard. Unfortunately for Messrs. Eisenhower and Nixon, such is not the way of democracy. The presumption that the government is infallible has never been popularly accepted, and even bipartisanship is only viable in times of genuine consensus. Obviously, this is not one of those times...