Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fearing the NCAA would strip its star golfer of his amateur status, made Woods send Palmer a check for his half of the tab: $25. Story has it that Palmer kept the check and framed it, but the truth is that he did cash it, more for Tiger's sake than...
...apprehensive about the fiery apparitions in the night sky. But he is impatient with their modern counterparts, who should know better. "I ask readers to treat all these irresponsible reports with the disdain they deserve," he says, "and instead enjoy the beauty of the comet for its own sake...
...candidates. We are concerned that the proposal's recommendations are too vague and we hope that the Faculty will be stringent in the requirements according to which it ultimately makes these decisions. More importantly, though, we encourage the Faculty to not reduce the percentage of Summa recipients for the sake of numbers alone; instead, we hope that the Faculty will define clear qualifications for receiving Summa and will award as many students as are worthy...
...about the desire to decrease the number of Summa degrees. The requirement that the overall number of Summas each year be between four and five percent of the total degree candidates (down from this past year's rate of seven percent) sacrifices personal achievement and individual accomplishment for the sake of some arbitrary cut-off. As such, we strongly discourage the Faculty from voting affirmatively on this element of the proposal. Give closer scrutiny to Summa candidates, but stick to your own guidelines; candidates thought worthy of highest honors should not be excluded from the distinction of Summa just because...
...think of the impact of, say, a fresh ten billion dollars. It could mean better lighting in the library, MAC equipment that is younger than the students, and bands at Springfest with actual name-recognition. Are we really willing to give up all this and more just for the sake of clinging to the name of a guy who didn't even bother to leave a picture for his statue...