Word: eighth
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Cornell has not been ranked in a national poll since in lost to Harvard. The Big Red could clinch the eighth and final playoff spot this weekend by upsetting Harvard and No. 4 Northeastern. If the season were to end today, Harvard would host Cornell in the first round of the ECAC Tournament...
...Crimson, meanwhile, heads to New York with the ECAC's second-best defense, allowing 1.43 goals per contest. Freshman goaltender Alison Kuusisto--who made the ECAC Honor Roll last week after a career-high 38 saves against Brown--will make her eighth and ninth starts since junior netminder Crystal Springer broke her collarbone. Kuusisto has a 1.96 GAA and a .900 save percentage...
Freshman David Barry won 3-2 over Yale's Gordy Rogers in a hard-fought match at the eighth slot...
...weekend in which Harvard's best team everreturned to Cambridge, the Crimson turned in itsbest performances of the season. It picked up avery difficult four points, allowing it to moveinto a tie for eighth place with Vermont...
...been raised too high? Some teachers and parents complain that the tests are too exhaustive--and exhausting--for young students. The Massachusetts test clocked in at 16 hours, spread over several weeks. Tina Yalen, an eighth-grade civics teacher, gave her opinion of the Virginia test: "Some of it looked like Trivial Pursuit to me." More worrisome is how a 10-year-old will react if his or her result is branded with a scarlet F. Says Harvard's Reville: "An overload of negative feedback runs the risk that students are going to shut down and not make an effort...