Word: placing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty's continuing lack of faith in students' academic integrity. It is also another reminder of the University's egocentric conviction that no outside education can stack up to the Harvard ideal. But if students yearned for substandard education they would not have come to Harvard in the first place. And if they exited en masse to study elsewhere once the rules were relaxed, perhaps the Faculty would conclude that Harvard's insuperable academic excellence is not quite so insuperable...
Despite the absence of the team's three best runners, the Harvard women's cross country squad managed a respectable sixth place finish in the New England Championships at Burlington, Vt., Saturday...
Team captain Karla Amble and freshman Leslie Voit completed the 5000-meter Vermont course three seconds apart at 19:03 and 19:06, for 53rd and 56th places, respectively. Diane Jacobsen had troubles with the crowd at the starting line, but she recovered to round out the Harvard scoring in 85th place...
...queues up to ride the cramped shuttle flight between Washington and New York, where his wife, who suffers from arthritis, still lives. A month ago, when the dollar was under attack, Volcker found himself marooned for six hours at New York's La Guardia Airport waiting for a place on the shuttle. Says one aide with a grin: "Perhaps he now realizes that with his current responsibilities, that's taking unpretentiousness...
Referring to Kennedy's complaint that Carter should place less emphasis on "the malaise" in the country and more on inspiring a "can do" spirit, the President declared: "People are discouraged about the current situation. They are doubtful about the future. . . But our country is inherently strong, capable and able. We're the strongest nation on earth economically, politically and militarily. We're going to stay that way . . . We can resolve the malaise that has existed...