Word: lowered
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...wish for a competitive men's basketball team on occasion, or a football squad to crack the top-20, we should at the same time realize that for Harvard to be competitive in those sports would require the school to hand out scholarships and significantly lower its admissions standards. Top academic schools like Duke and Stanford have chosen to do that, but I firmly believe that Harvard should...
That brings me to a second point, about Ivy League athletics in general. The temptation is great, when an Ivy school is failing in athletics, to simply lower its standards and raise its winning percentage. That there is a direct trade-off between admissions standards and on-court success is a stark fact of life for Ivy League sports...
...long been said that Penn has been dominant in football and basketball over the years because of lower admissions standards than the other Ivy schools. The question of uneven standards is a serious problem, and one which will haunt the league year after year. If there is a serious threat to the delicate and successful balance the Ivy League has maintained, it is that an overcompetitive school, team or coach will succumb to the temptation. Here's hoping no one does...
...employees. Whether or not the actual data about "average" salary increases have been distorted I cannot say, since no raw data or notes are provided. What I can say is that whoever was making up the graph saw a disturbing trend, among both union and non-union staff, toward lower rates of increase as the years progressed. Therefore, despite titling the graph "...Increases 1980-87," he or she defied all common practice and reversed the chronological order of the bars--in order to mislead employees into thinking that raises had been growing rather than shrinking...
College officials said that the increase in medical excuses probably does not indicate a trend. "My experience is that the number is lower than it was last year," said Jeffery Wolcowitz, senior tutor of Dunster House. "The variations [from year to year] depend on what strain of flu is going around...