Word: sub-standard
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...academic, extracurricular and social choices, first-years may find themselves in classes for which they are unprepared. Moreover, it often takes first-year students a few months to mature and adjust to college life, a factor that might explain poor first semester performance but does not necessarily indicate that sub-standard performance will continue. In fact, in the past two years, two of the eight students who did not meet the College’s more rigorous standards in their first semester were able to improve their academic performance and stay at Harvard...
...higher education policy. To explain the depth of feeling on the subject: it is a scandal to end all scandals if someone is accepted into Oxford following a parental donation, whereas I hear that over there you can deal with the idea of letting in a couple of sub-standard students if it means a few extra libraries for everyone else. In the ongoing debate in Britain, Harvard is constantly cited by both sides: by lefties as a terrible example of inequity, to which only the privileged can aspire, and by the right as an example of somewhere where funding...
...Diego?s Center for Public Interest Law hosted a conference last month, a dozen of the nation?s top practitioners stayed away because the keynote speaker was Nader. Michael Thorsness, a successful business trial lawyer, wrote a letter explaining his boycott. "Nader is the reason we have a sub-standard president," he explained to the center's director. "His ?campaign? was nothing more than an exercise in egomania and I, for one, will have no part of any proceeding in which he is involved...
...Right now it is a sub-standard facility," says Nahal Kazemi '01, a varsity athlete who uses the MAC frequently to work...
...Alessandro's recommendation calls the rented facility "significantly inadequate and sub-standard...