Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson tallied many hits--beyond the meager math skills of Ivy League college students--including 11 home runs...
...rate at which their children married outside the faith do likewise. Unease turned to alarm in 1990, when the National Jewish Population Survey announced that the intermarriage rate had reached 52%. A last forlorn fantasy--that all those Gentile spouses would eventually become Jews--was punctured by a meager 9% conversion rate. In fact, 54% of the children in all Jewish households are not being raised as Jews. The result, often feared but never quite in this context: "Saving an unforeseen reversal of current trends, it appears...that the history of the Jews as we have known it and them...
First, HDS should improve the quality of meat, fruit and vegetables they serve to students on a daily basis; these staples are far too often below an acceptable standard. Second, Mayer should make it a priority to significantly improve the meager options currently available to campus vegetarians. Third, Mayer should move to improve the quality of the "ethnic food" served in the dining halls. All too often these well-intentioned attempts end up defaming rather than fostering appreciation for the world's fine culinary traditions...
...factor in the HYP was the weather and the home-course advantage. After being dumped with more than two-feet of snow, the local Boston golf courses have been under the weather, leaving the Harvard team with only the indoor golf cages to practice in. Compare that to the meager two inches of white stuff which fell upon the Princeton and New Haven areas...
...mention the approximately $30,000 in tuition, room and board which that year represents. Because we do care about our education, and because we are concerned with Harvard's future, we feel obliged to raise a few questions that the Faculty Council might consider when reviewing your relatively meager and insufficient proposals for Core reform...