Differences in reading from an istream vs. stringstream

Given the following input file:

bob 1 2 3 4 5
mary 2 3 4 5 6 7
susan 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

This code snippet does not read it correctly:

class Student
{
public:
    ...
private:
    std::string _Name;
    std::vector<int> _Grades;
};
....
/***** this only gets called once *****/
std::istream& operator>>(std::istream& is, Student& s)
{
    string name = "";
    is >> name;
    std::vector<int> grades;
    std::copy(std::istream_iterator<int>(is),
    std::istream_iterator<int>(), std::back_inserter(grades));
    /***** at this point, name and the grades vector are correct for the
'first' line in the input file *****/
    s.setName(name);
    s.setGrades(grades);
    return is;

}
....
std::ifstream fin;
std::vector<Student> students;
std::copy(std::istream_iterator<Student>(fin),
std::istream_iterator<Student>(), std::back_inserter(students));
/***** at this point, the students vector is empty *****/
If I change operator>> to read from a stringstream instead, it works as
expected.

std::istream& operator>>(std::istream& is, Student& s)
{
    std::string name = "";
    is >> name;

    std::string sGrades = "";
    std::getline(is, sGrades);

    std::stringstream ss(sGrades);

    std::vector<int> grades;
    std::copy(std::istream_iterator<int>(ss),
    std::istream_iterator<int>(), std::back_inserter(grades));

    s.setName(name);
    s.setGrades(grades);

    return is;
}

So even though the one (and only) call to operator>> read the first line of
the file and assigned the values to the Student parameter, the students
vector got nothing added to it. Why would changing to a stringstream fix
this?