Word: flukes
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There is no reason to think that this year's result is anything but a fluke. In the last 10 years, following fairly strict endorsement criteria, Harvard College has nominated 458 candidates for the U.S. Rhodes, 44 of whom have been fortunate enough to win. In this same decade, U.S. state committees have considered over 10,000 candidates from 350 colleges and universities. That one school's students should fare so well, and do so consistently over time, is truly remarkable in this context...
...scholars who go on to study at Oxford University, this year they are entirely absent from the group. And having duly congratulated Canadian Rhodes scholarship winner Tegan S. Shohet '01, we are puzzled why Harvard students were unable to garner any of the American Rhodes scholarships. Statistical fluke? So says Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis...
...these changes are made, Lewis and Gerson can rest assured that Harvard's present impotence in the Rhodes competition is indeed a statistical fluke and not the result of a miscalibrated endorsement process. Future applicants too can then know it was the stars that were aligned against them rather than the system...
With two points in its pocket from North Country, the Crimson can put Friday's disaster where it belongs--in the past--and look towards an easy ride over Brown this Thursday. Anything else would be a fluke...
Clearly, St. Lawrence's spotless league record was not entirely out of luck. Its scrappiness and determination, coupled with less defensive pressure from the Crimson, showed that the Saints' conference record is not a fluke--it allowed the Saints to erase Ruddock's shutout in the final stanza...