Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...measure students' reasoning skills, math and verbal, as well as their readiness for college. High SAT scores -- perfection is 800 on each half of the exam -- have acquired the cachet of quality. Suburbs lure prospective home buyers by touting the SAT records of their high schools' graduates. Colleges boast of the high average scores of their incoming freshmen; nearly 1,600 U.S. colleges and universities, including the Ivy League elite, rely on SAT results...
Brown and Princeton occupy a middle level in the league. Neither skates as many quality lines as the top group. But the Bruins and Tigers both boast enough standouts to have a chance at cracking The Top Six. Clean bills of health for the likes of Brown all-ECAC defenseman Mike Brewer and Princeton's second-team All-ECAC forward Andre Faust could provide a window for this pair of Ivy teams to move...
...university may boast the largest academic endowment in the nation, but, citing short-term deficits, administration officials are promising spending cuts before the year is out. Acting Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky announced this month that he intends to reduce Faculty costs--including finances for the College, academic departments, libraries and undergraduate dorms, among others things--by up to 6 percent...
...decade-long offensive against campus liberalism, the staff of the independent student weekly Dartmouth Review has managed to offend women, blacks, Native Americans and homosexuals. Last week, on the eve of Yom Kippur, the Review sank to a new low by printing Hitler's boast that "by warding off the Jews, I am fighting for the Lord's work." The Dartmouth campus erupted with indignation. Though editor in chief Kevin Pritchett claimed that some unidentified culprit had sneaked the quote into print, the Review's president and two other staff members quit. Outraged students supported by faculty members organized...
...these teams, the thrill is in finishing first, not fast. In a pennant race, closeness is all, and 1990 could boast a crucial series: Toronto-Boston last weekend, with brilliant, battered Roger Clemens appearing - to pitch the Sox to a tangy win. Early autumn abounds in such epiphanies. But then what? The survivors, already winded like nicotine addicts in a marathon, will have to consider a more daunting task: facing the Oakland Athletics...