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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hockey Looks to Keep No. 1 | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hockey Looks to Keep No. 1 | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

Freshman David Barry won 3-2 over Yale's Gordy Rogers in a hard-fought match at the eighth slot...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Squash Defeats Elis for 9th Straight Ivy Title | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey: Call It a Comeback | 2/16/1999 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Test of Their Lives | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

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