Word: inferior
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...things that get you accepted at Harvard University) is superior to "physical activity" (read: the kinds of things people at "lesser" institutions do). If Harvard is based upon this proposition, as Kurzman suggests, it shouldn't be. There are already too many hierarchies at this school separating people into inferior and superior categories. Wouldn't it be simpler and more human to say that good piccolo players and Scott Fusco should excel at what they do and leave it at that? Why is it necessary to say that one is better that the other...
...games begin. All day long, in event after event, students from the smaller and inferior schools demonstrate that they are no match for the Big H, and parents and relatives of the Crimson heroes heckle and taunt the losers in an orgy of Cantabrigian chauvinism...
...Sometimes our constant questions cause friction between groups within the house. But worse...stigma--we have to prove ourselves because the University institutions--including this paper--treat the Quad as inferior. It's a constant battle with a reputation which the administration, organizations, and non-Quadlings perpetuate...
FOLLOWING THE inauspicious debut of wunderkind Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute in 1791, the music critic of the Berlin Musikalisches Wochenblatt remarked that the opera had "not won the much hoped for and expected acclaim, on account of its inferior text and subject matter." Even so, the magical spectacle and symbolism that makes up what is perhaps Mozart's most popular opera continues to win the hearts of many music-lovers and theater-goers alike. That is, when the opera is performed well, which is definitely not the case at the Lowell House Opera's current rendition...
ADVOCATES OF THE moral regeneration approach believe that the moral fiber of ghetto teenagers is inferior to that of mainstream America. Black leaders and others are now saying that they--from their higher socioeconomic position--have decided that ghetto Blacks must be morally reformed...