Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Barnaby, the team again shapes up as one of the strongest in the Ivy League, and the race should go down once again to the final match between the Crimson and Yale. The Elis have their top six men back intact from the squad the varsity upset last spring for the Ivy League title...
...first glance, the varsity fencing team's record seems good enough--seven wins and six losses, possession of the Arvanites Sabre Trophy, and the New England epee champion in the person of Jim Roberts. But, except for a fine upset victory over C.C.N.Y. in early February, the Crimson fared miserably against major opposition, dropping all five Ivy League matches...
...this freedom was not destined for a long life. Individual instructors, proctors, and even students became upset over the amount of cheating possible under such a system. Despite the fact that Student Government began placing mild restrictions on exam conduct a few years after the honor-system privilege was granted, the 'Cliffies clamored for "crystallization of a positive honor system." In particular, the student body objected to a principle which lay at the heart of successful unproctored examinations--the student's responsibility to report any rule violations which she chanced to observe...
...trouble began at the end of the St. Patrick's Day parade Saturday afternoon when an undergraduate crowd, perhaps upset by the tough handling of rioters during Thursday's outbreak, loitered in the streets and threw a few snowballs at a group of massed New Haven police. Joined by motorcycle units and supported by fire-hoses, the police, using their clubs freely, charged the crowd...
...tempting commercial banks to "play the spread" by borrowing money from the Federal Reserve at 2½% and putting it into Government securities that yield more. The Fed's discount-rate increase will stop this practice, was timed to take place between Treasury financings so as not to upset the market...