Word: yale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soon as we buy into some institution, Harvard or any other, we risk falling into the insidious trap of believing that titular or institutional recognition is an honest and perfect assessment of worth. We risk believing that the first place graduate of Yale Law School is the best young lawyer in the country, that the MVP is the best athlete in the league, or that the filmmaker with the Academy Award made the best movie of the year...
...itself. In a few years we are left with nothing but the class ranking, the MVP award or the Oscar. The perhaps undeserving recipient of the honor is forever referred to casually as "So-and-so, yeah, he's a brilliant lawyer, he graduated first in his class at Yale, may make a fine Supreme Court Justice." And then the title forever carries a currency that it never should have carried in the first place. The institution's power grows, and the authority of truth diminishes...
...main seasons of both the men's and women's teams' begin in February, when the Crimson takes on Ivy League rivals Penn, Princeton, and Yale...
...Yale has maintained a healthy 5 percent payoutrate since 1995 and has no intention of changingit, according to Tom Conroy, Yale's actingdirector of public affairs...
...Harvard football team--your team--gave a tremendous effort all season, with mixed results. Those of us who attended the Yale game recognize that by most measures Harvard outplayed Yale--in a game that saw its share of errors, bad luck, reversals of fortune and redemption (for Yale). Harvard did indeed lose, but our team played its heart out, as did Yale. You should be ashamed of yourselves for that editorial. MARLYN McGRATH LEWIS...