Word: four-point
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...HAVEN, Conn.—Impressive as it is, the Harvard men’s hockey team’s four-point lead in the ECAC is a bit deceiving...
...survey released yesterday by Suffolk University and WHDH-TV found Romney has gained a four-point advantage, although that was still within the poll’s margin for error...
...turning point of the match was a four-point run sparked by the powerful play of Ogbechie. After splitting the first two games, Harvard and Brown (6-9, 2-1) were knotted at 11-11 in game three...
Dartmouth and Penn—not 2001 Ivy cellar-dweller Princeton—were supposed to be Harvard’s toughest challenges, yet the Tigers were the team that dealt Harvard its only Ivy loss. The Crimson turned a nine-point halftime deficit into a four-point lead late in the game but couldn’t win it. Still, Harvard would never lose again during the regular season, as it came back the next day with a 20-point blowout of defending Ivy champion Penn at the Palestra going into exam break...
...past year, the Faculty’s Educational Policy Committee has brainstormed several ways to combat grade inflation. One suggestion, which was adopted by the Faculty and will be enacted next year, is to switch from Harvard’s needlessly confusing 15-point grading scale to the standard four-point scale. This is a good move, but it will not directly reduce grade inflation; grades have increased because standards have disintegrated, and shifting to a new grading scale will not make grades more accurate...