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...played five games already this season, winning three and drawing one, and will be invading Cambridge coming off a 9-5 trouncing of Northeastern last Wednesday. The Crimson are at a disadvantage, having only scrimmaged Bowdoin in November...
Leading scorers Phil Jonckheer and Peter Hursh spearheaded the Crimson's drive to tournament victories over MIT, Northeastern, Bowdoin and Brown...
...schools and progressive colleges like Bennington have appraised applicants' artifacts for years, but only lately has the practice reached other liberal arts colleges. Bowdoin in Maine and Hampshire in Massachusetts first invited examples of creative work three years ago. Yale joined them this year and others are considering it. Not everyone approves. Harvard tried it and then gave up because, according to Admissions Director John P. Reardon, it attracted too many "bizarre" submissions-and "wasn't all that helpful anyway...
...earlier years, to learn more than is revealed by S.A.T. scores. Gimmicks alone will not get a student into college, of course. Yale turned down-on academic grounds-applicants who had sent in an embroidered pillowcase, an apple cake and a sexy black negligee handmade of appliqued silk. At Bowdoin, President Roger Howell took a bite of a cookie made by one aspirant and grunted, "She'd better be good in class because she's not in the kitchen." She wasn't, and was not admitted...
...case of an athlete or student newspaper editor, however, outside interests can be decisive in borderline cases. "This is a chance for the sensitive, imaginative student to get even," says Bowdoin's Admissions Director Richard Moll. Amy Carney ensured her acceptance to Bowdoin when she spotted a tear in Moll's pants, then mailed him an embroidered linen patch accompanied by a quotation from Thoreau on the value of mending old clothes. The college's aim, says Moll, is "to build a class full of differences...