Word: sub-standard
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After years of world-class caliber play in sub-standard facilities, the Harvard men's and women's tennis and squash teams will start their respective seasons this year across the river in their new place, the Murr Center, which officially opened this May. Next to Soldiers' Field and in front of the Bright Hockey Rink at the site of to old Carey Cage and Varsity Club, the state-of-the-art, three -story Murr Center puts Harvard on the map for having top-quality squash and indoor tennis facilities...
Unfortunately, the Staff has incorrectly inflated the question of Radcliffe's institutional status into one of structural misogyny at Harvard. The problem of sub-standard and incompetent teaching fellows is not just a women's problem. It is an issue that affects all undergraduates, male and female...
...wasn't too long before the inadequacies of my amateurish style became evident. Given a very large bucket, I might have been able to carry a tune, but usually my singing sounded more like the call of a tomcat on the prowl. My guitar playing was similarly sub-standard, though most wouldn't be able to tell through the jangling of six crudely-tuned strings. And, finally, my harmonica playing--which I'd been toying with for a longer time--was more than enough to set the dog howling in pain and my little brother storming to my room...
Following Dartmouth in the league is Yale. While the Elis have posted a winning overall record, their sub-standard Ivy league performance puts them below the .500 mark...
...children with more disposable income. Working-class parents could begin to send their children to private or parochial schools. The voucher system proposed by the Republicans would be far more expensive than the Libertarian proposal and less effective, because public schools with good reputations would soon become overcrowded and sub-standard. By giving more parents the means to provide their children with private educations, public schools would soon improve from more manageable student populations...