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...feel very confident that we’re well on our way to getting there,” Saretsky said. “As our team gets older and more experienced, it will be that natural progression where we can just compete there...
...nine returning and two highly-touted freshman opening their collegiate careers, the team was at top form from the first point. Despite having no seniors in the starting nine and just freshmen and sophomores in the top four flights, the Crimson demonstrated the consistency and poise of a much older team. “Not losing anybody from last year really helped our team dynamic,” junior captain Johanna Snyder said. “And our freshmen are top of the line and come in with a lot of maturity.” The victories boost Harvard?...
...about outlining a vision for general education in the 21st century, most students’ complaints continued to center less on pedagogical philosophy than on the paucity of options for fulfilling Core requirements. Incoming students no longer have to choose—as we seniors, the last of an older generation, had to—their concentration in their freshman year, ostensibly to permit, through more freedom to sample various disciplines, thus a more meaningful choice of study. Departments did not delay to follow suit—the History Department, for example, made the previously required introductory survey optional three...
...result is that by the time we look at the professional hockey leagues in Canada, a shockingly disproportionate number of the players on the roster were born in January, February and March. This effect also affects schooling. Those who are closer to eligibility cutoffs for school enrollment and are older when they begin kindergarten and pre-school are likely to be more mature and more intellectually advanced than those born farther away from the cutoff. This arbitrary cutoff date then has a real impact on the success of these students; at many colleges, Gladwell claims, students...
...wears, the boys forge a fast friendship. Bruno brings Shmuel food smuggled from his kitchen and the pair finds ways to play ball and checkers despite the electric fence between them. Bruno is confused by the anti-Semitic propaganda spouted by his tutor, Herr Liszt (Jim Norton), and his older sister Gretel (Amber Beattie), and doesn’t associate his new friend with the portrayal of Jews in the books he’s forced to read. Bruno’s naïveté is one of the film’s most heart-wrenching yet endearing aspects...