Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...captain Sam Butler upset Dartmouth's Kenneth Norman to take the 440 in 49.1 for the biggest win of the meet. Butler came from behind in the last 15 yards to pass Norman, who has the best indoor and outdoor times in New England for the event...
...knew it was going to happen," he recalls. "We were upset but it was explained very rationally to us. At that point, there was such a gap between East and West, we wouldn't have had much of a chance anyway...
...writing to express my feelings about the present academic calendar here at Harvard. I was upset by Dean Pipkin's statement that the schedule may not be changed to pre-Christmas exams, etc. because "only" 60% of the students polled reacted negatively to the present calendar...
...turned out, the Ivy League was without a single upset last year. Cornell went undefeated to win the championship for the fourth time in five years, and Penn was second with only the one loss to the Big Red. Princeton was third, losing only to the top two squads...
...much to improve matters; as Bok's special assistant Walter Leonard has written, "Many male administrators and faculty members are inherently incapable of perceiving race and sex discrimination without the intervention of some external force." The federal government intervened in university hiring, not out of a perverse desire to upset the lives of college administrators, but because the administrators had shown themselves unable-or unwilling-to fight discrimination on their own initiative...