Word: sub-standard
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Updike didn’t only take on The Crimson, though. One 1953 rhyme he penned for the magazine begins, “Old Advocate, once you were famous and staid, / But Now, both obscene and sub-standard; / For thus you are called by printers appalled, / Who never should bother to read what they’re paid / To print: we say you are slandered...
...case of Asian Americans, unkind regard is often accompanied, paradoxically, by a myth that they are a “model” minority that is not being victimized; consequently, events of violence and denigration are ignored as exceptional. Ironically, the result has been a pattern of sub-standard treatment that is as old as the 1854 California Supreme Court ruling of People v. Hall, which abnegated court testimony from Chinese Americans on grounds of their “inferiority” to whites, and as alive as the indefensible lenience recently shown to the white murderers of Vincent Chin...
Armini said the Law School’s attention to environmental law is unrelated to a petition which 350 HLS students signed in April, in which they called the school’s program in that area “sub-standard...
...petition delivered to the law school administration and faculty last week shows beyond doubt that improving HLS’ sub-standard environmental law program is much more than a pet cause of enviros. Signed by 350 law students, the petition is a vital plea for rapid improvements in Harvard’s long-suffering environmental law curriculum, and the administration must heed its call...
...petition claims that “opportunities in environmental law at Harvard remain clearly sub-standard,” and that HLS has “fewer environmental classes than law schools half our size...