Word: teamwork
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...verb "to educate" to quoting Kierkegaard. However, his voice as a writer comes into conflict with his desire to clearly convey the rowing experience. It is difficult to believe that a rower on the Charles before sunrise is thinking about the benefits to learning from mistakes orthe merits of teamwork...
...blessing in Sanskrit, a language both he and Eck love. Other speakers invoked the names of past Lowell leaders, including first senior tutor Pope Professor of Latin Emeritus Mason Hammond and first master Julian Lowell Coolidge. Plummer Professor of Morals Peter J. Gomes spoke eloquently of the importance of teamwork in the Masters' residence and used the Greek word "diarchy" (dual rule) to define the leadership of the new masters...
...moral of the story is teamwork!" I tell them...
...friends who row find the "rowing is a metaphor for life" idea to be trite, but none denies its truth. Nothing teaches the lessons of life more clearly: the importance of self-directed discipline, of teamwork and cohesion, of sacrifice and toil. Nothing can be so simultaneously frustrating and strangely satisfying. While winning the race is important, equally important is the quality and integrity of the preparation building up to it. And after all that, you still could lose the race by 0.6 seconds--a margin of three feet--as Harvard's varsity heavyweight crew did at last year...
...Crimson won the fifth game through preciseexecution and teamwork. After Penn junior KristinStine served the ball out-of-bounds with Harvardleading 9-4, the Crimson played beautifully forthe rest of the game, with Forcum and senioroutside hitter Anne Schafer shutting down the Pennattack. The Crimson won the game 15-7 after Penn'sSabatino returned the ball out-of-bounds...