请问一下。On one campus, students use Wi-Fi to fire off instant messages, review their homework assignments, and check their bank balances. Just nine miles down the highway, another university had been feeling a bit of a technology inferiority complex. To compensate,it spent tens of thousands of dollars to give every one of its incoming freshmen a free Apple ipa. 

这是我从课本中选的一段（有点长，还请看看），其中一句用了had been为过去完成进行时，可在这一句我并没有找到参照时间，所以请老师们看看。     先谢谢了！