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PRINCETON, N.J.-The deck had been stacking up against the Harvard men's hockey team, with two dreadful periods against Yale last Saturday and a 60-minute stinker against Northeastern in the Beanpot opener Monday...

Author: By Miki Knobler, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Easier: Icemen Trump the Tigers, 7-2 | 2/11/1984 | See Source »

...Technology, who became the first academic vice president of Caltech; University of Chicago Experimental Physicist Robert Millikan, whose prestige attracted many to the young school; and Astronomer and Cosmologist George Ellery Hale, the school's visionary godfather. Because of their academic specialties, the founding trio are irreverently known as "Stinker, Tinker and Thinker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Community of Scientists | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...stinker, how's it goin'? I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to write earlier, but you know how it is senior year, what with EXTRAs to write and toga parties...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Dear Savoir-Faire | 9/30/1978 | See Source »

...short, Eyes is a real stinker. Even the twist ending is stupidly handled and unsatisfying. The film never quite holds one's attention; both the plot and the characters are so far-fetched and poorly constructed that the attempt at suspense fails miserably. The unintended audience laughs of absurdity come more often than the intended gasps of horror. Yes, this is definitely one film where the nays have it. Enough said...

Author: By Raymond Bertolino, | Title: Stupid Films: A Textbook Case | 8/11/1978 | See Source »

...been an unusually trying year for students applying to graduate schools of medicine, law and business. And for the makers of the standardized tests required of all college and grad school applicants, the year has been a real stinker. Errors in translating raw test scores into the composite scores sent to school admissions offices marred both the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) and the Graduate Management Aptitude Test (GMAT) this year, while alterations in the content of the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) seriously skewed the results and forced some law schools to reevaluate students whom they had admitted before...

Author: By Peter R. Melnick, | Title: Facing the Test: Grad School as Statistical Uncertainty | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

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