Word: weaker
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...number of black undergraduates back to the token levels of the early sixties. Nevertheless, some Committee members have offered explanations for the decrease that are not particularly well-founded. The Philadelphia public school strike -- cited by some as a partial reason for the decline -- no doubt contributed to the weaker recruiting program; yet its contribution was clearly overshadowed by the 64-per-cent drop in black applications from two prestigious New England prep schools. Another factor, a large decline in the number of prospective black freshmen directed to Harvard by currently enrolled black students, is probably the most important cause...
...UMass was weaker than we expected," Gellis said last night. The Crimson takes on Governor Dummer Saturday in its third game of the season...
Since the city does not have a spring primary to weed out the weaker candidates, the November ballot will be a lengthy one. With no lack of issues and aspiring office-seekers to exploit them, political controversy and confusion will be rampant in Cambridge this summer...
With fewer shoulders hefting a bigger load of mail, the spirit and flesh have grown weaker. Rademacher plans to testify to the Senate this week that morale is down and mortality is up among his union members. An ongoing national survey by the union that has so far covered 110 cities shows that mailmen have suffered 300 heart attacks and 24 deaths on the job since last April-three times the comparable statistics for those cities in the previous year...
...unfair, for he must lose no matter how he turns. The "big-time-basketball" experiment has failed at Harvard as it will at Pennsylvania, and Brown, and Princeton, for professionalism at the collegiate level will only increase until all the "academic institutions" are incapable of competing against even the weaker members of the professional ranks...