Word: fielding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard field hockey team may have only 16 players on its varsity roster, but that lack of bodies has by no means translated into a lack of depth...
What to do about Theater Boy? That was the question vexing Peggy Walbridge and David Field as the two admissions readers paged through his application to Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. With a 1,420 SAT score, solid grades and top scores on two Advanced Placement exams, the applicant - we're calling him Theater Boy to protect his identity - certainly looked like Cornell material. He had appeared in professional music productions and helped raise over $50,000 to stage plays at his school. "That's pretty amazing," Walbridge muttered. Field chuckled as he read through the applicant's essay about...
...pause. There was nothing outstanding in the applicant's two teacher recommendations. A more gushing letter came from his boss at the pizza place where he worked after school, detailing Theater Boy's rapport with the restaurant's immigrant cooks. "He sure sounds like a wonderful employee," said Walbridge. Field interjected, "But is he a real scholar?" Theater Boy wrote that he wants to study politics and history. But the two readers wondered why he hadn't studied more of them already. Theater Boy's moment was fading as quickly as it came. "The more I think about...
Entering its tilt with Yale at Ohiri Field tomorrow at 2:30 p.m., Harvard (7-2, 2-1 Ivy) is riding a five-game winning streak and stands in prime position to gain ground in the Ivy League standings...
...Harvard men's soccer team enters this weekend's battle with Yale at Ohiri Field knowing that with a loss, those intangibles would probably be the only thing left to fight...