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Word: proving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some legal experts across the nation are not so confident that this case will prove to be the landmark that the students hope it will be. They say that claims of discriminatory hiring levelled at universities are notoriously hard...

Author: By Seth S. Harkness, | Title: Taking the Law School to Court | 12/1/1990 | See Source »

...Harvard men's hockey team's 8-1 schooling of Dartmouth Tuesday night, like earlier season blowouts of Brown and Yale, was a very big win over a very mediocre hockey team. But the Crimson has yet to prove that it can beat a very good squad and reestablish itself at the pinnacle of the NCAA...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: Icemen Face Real Test This Weekend | 11/29/1990 | See Source »

...games this coming weekend against Cornell and Colgate at Bright Center, however, are two more chances for Harvard to prove its mettle...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: Icemen Face Real Test This Weekend | 11/29/1990 | See Source »

...those "likely to edit The Crimson." Then why does the admission office have an "athletic rating" separate from the "extracurricular rating"? Why do athletes score significantly lower in every other area of comparison? Although the officials are correct in pointing out that athletes' disproportionate admission rate alone does not prove that they receive preferential treatment, these figures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Admissions for Fun and Profit: Why Byerly Hall Won't Tell All | 11/27/1990 | See Source »

Perhaps we're being unfair. In order to give the admissions office a chance to prove its good faith on openness and to settle the question of whether athletes are treated differently from those applicants who excel at editing the paper or playing the French horn, we call upon the admissions office to release the aggregate applicant statistics of the men's hockey team, the football team, the field hockey team, the Crimson executive board and the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra. Let's settle this little factual dispute once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Admissions for Fun and Profit: Why Byerly Hall Won't Tell All | 11/27/1990 | See Source »

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