Word: mediocrityã
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...Feud.” I suppressed these concerns and entered practice mode, watching syndicated episodes of the game show with my teammates nightly for two weeks. Although I’d watched the show before, I’d never realized it was basically a contest in mediocrity??teams compete to guess the most frequent responses to inane questions previously posed to 100 average Americans. For example, if asked “What’s a cure for the hiccups,” teams try to respond not with the most accurate or effective answer...
...host of popular writings from the 1980s on have charged universities with teaching too little, costing too much, coddling professors and neglecting students, embracing an “illiberalism” that has silenced open debate. A PBS special in 2005 described a “sea of mediocrity?? that “places this nation at risk.” A report issued by the U.S. Department of Education last year warned of the “obsolescence” of higher education as we know it and called for federal intervention in service of the national...
...they reside in the past. The present Harvard program is one of mediocrity??teams that barely crack .500, way behind Penn and Princeton in the Ivy standings...
Nevertheless, we acknowledge, at the very least Yale continues in its Panglossian hope to rise above mediocrity??trying ever so valiantly, but, alas, failing as only a true Eli knows how. Fielding a JV squad for the annual Game and using www.safetyschool.org as your home-page is not helping the cause...
...losers. Wait until tomorrow. Our team is so much more emasculated than you, and we know how to overcome mediocrity??preserve all we can, until you take your shame trains back to Cambridge...