Word: lopping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With two lop-sided victories over Tufts and Newport Naval Station under its belt, the unbeaten J.V. eleven will seek its first Ivy win against a strong Dartmouth team at 2 p.m. this afternoon on Soldiers Field...
Football came in like a lion, with 200 Freshmen going out in a feverishly excited season. But the last few games saw humiliating, lop-sided upsets for a mediocre season, enlivened by a now-familiar discussion of the merits of collegiate football in general. Barry Wood's What Price Football? came out to answer, among other arguments, the suggestion of Henry Pritchett, President of the Carnegie Foundation that football be abandoned in favor of horseracing...
...Predicted Rank List, which tries to sum up ability and motivation, is by no means infallibile, since Group IV PRL entrants have gone on to receive Magnas, and vice versa. Although an applicant will probably never stand or fall on Predicted Rank List alone, the trend is to lop off applicants on the very lowest range of ability. Five or six years ago, the average Harvard student was in the top 5 per cent of the nation's college group, now he is in the top 3 per cent. Ten per cent of the class of '58 scored below...
...losses, only one--the disaster at Brown--was by a lop-sided margin, and the varsity actually won 50 individual matches to its opponents' 35 during the campaign. The team, a much better one than its record would indicate, had every conceivable "break" go the wrong way--from mid-season withdrawals to questionable calls to Bob Foster's absence (due to a knee injury) from a match in which his victory would have been the deciding factor...
...Lop off some of the years now given to elementary and junior high schools, fill them with high school level courses. ¶ Legislate widespread and continuous federal aid to education. ¶ Keep local control of curriculum, but strengthen schools by the establishment of national minimum standards. Hechinger suggests a National Board of Education Advisers, appointed by the President, from citizens of widely varied occupation. The board, apparently, would determine only the minimum attention given to each subject; Hechinger would rule out "any interference with matters of personnel, curriculum, teaching methods and the selection of textbooks...