Word: weaker
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...discontent that Harvard undergraduates feel with the quality of graduate Teaching Fellows ("Teaching the Teaching Fellows," March 9, 1994) is badly misplaced. It should be no surprise to undergraduates that the TFs who lead section and supervise labs often have a weaker grasp on the material presented than the professors who teach the class. Certainly it is no surprise to the TFs, most of whom were undergraduates themselves not too long ago. What is a surprise is that students who pay (or rather, whose parents pay) almost $25,000 a year for an education are willing to accept such...
...They seemed weaker than in the past," Crimson sophomore Craig Vitagliano said. "They had to forfeit a lot of matches. Wrestling has become like a club-sport there...
...first question! As for the second: legend has it that Widener the Younger was aboard the Titanic when it went down, and that only his prodigious swimming ability gave him something with which to occupy himself as he grew weaker and weaker and ultimately drowned. In the aftermath of the disaster, a friend of the family was heard to remark, "If only Young Widener had been content to stay at home eating ice cream as I advised, this tragedy would never have come to pass...
...History and Science Department will alsoadmit students who are weaker candidates on"probation," giving them a period of grace inwhich to prove themselves capable of handling therequirements of the concentration...
Granted, Harvard's first six opponents this season have been somewhat weaker than last year's foes. Still, it's difficult to imagine this year's squad falling behind Boston College 32-2 at the beginning of a game, as it did last season...