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...tried to convince the students that they should see this as a win,” he says. “They were risking snatching defeat from the jaws of victory if they saw this as a sell...
Harvard had little trouble dispatching Cornell and Columbia to start the Ivy season but could not defeat the Quakers in the teams’ rematch. Having to play on Penn’s home court, Harvard lost, 5-2, and realized that its Ivy hopes had likely disappeared...
...loss to Princeton on Feb. 10—a defeat which relegated the Crimson to its second Ivy League runner-up finish in three years—Bullock turned in a dominating 3-0 victory over No. 4 David Yik, who was then the defending national champion. Bullock advanced further than any other Crimson player in the main draw of the ISAs, losing in the quarterfinals...
From its podium, Henry Cabot Lodge, Class of 1861, declared the position that would defeat the League of Nations and George C. Marshall announced his plan to rescue Europe...
...that these standards are rigorously upheld. Admittedly, this is the most difficult way to address the problem: it would be far easier to arbitrarily mandate what percentage of As can be awarded in each class, forcing grades to conform neatly to a curve. But blindly enforcing a curve would defeat the entire purpose of grades—they would merely measure students relative to each other, telling students absolutely nothing about the objective quality of their work...