Word: superior
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Spartacus, hailed by Plutarch as a man "in understanding and gentleness superior to his condition," was the leader of a band of 78 slaves who in the year 73 B.C. escaped from a training school for gladiators at Capua, 130 miles south of Rome. Eluding the Roman garrison, the gladiators stole weapons, pillaged estates, and freed thousands of slaves (who then made up four-fifths of the population of Rome). After two years of revolt, during which he defeated nine armies sent against him by the Roman Senate, Spartacus commanded a force of 90,000, cavalry and foot. Emboldened...
...same kind of education, they expect to do well with the same low-work system that succeeded in school, a system peculiarly adapted to Exeter's unique teaching and testing system. When Harvard gives them C's instead of B's, and they are not taken as a superior species despite their conspicuous sophistication, they tend to react by doubting the worth of Harvard's system, pointing out its weaknesses and defects, and thus refuting its rejection of their performance. Substituting independent intellectual activity and creativity, both subjectively defined, they become mere academic hangers-on, and dissatisfaction frequently terminates...
...clearer case of regression is the "Andover Syndrome." From a school where a majority of the top of the class is bound for Yale, Harvard receives a group which has thought of itself as an intellectually oriented and superior minority. On arrival they find that the grading system does not endorse their superiority, that people with the same social outlook they rejected at Andover are quite successful at Harvard, and Harvard is not quite as ready as they had hoped to embrace all intellectuals with unqualified social success...
Grueninger's suit demands $2 million from the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the same amount from each of the five doctors, one of whom is on the Medical School Faculty. The suit was filed late last spring in the Suffolk Superior Civil Court, and all papers involved were immediately impounded by the Court...
...season favorite for the title. Almost all of the players on last year's second place team, which had only 14 points scored against it (by Dunster in the first game of the season), are returning. Led by quarterback Rog Skemp, a high school all-stater from Superior, Wis., the Elephants will have, in addition to a very adept backfield, the heaviest if not the toughest line in the league. At one of the tackle positions Eliot will play Bill King, a 290 pound tackle who played football for Marine teams while stationed in Quantico, Va., the past three years...