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...results were definitely a little disapointing,” sophomore bow seat Bonnie Scott said of the bronze. “But the race itself was better than what we had been having...

Author: By Michael Kummer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Radcliffe First Varsity Upsets No. 4 Princeton at Sprints | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...world is going to make us conform to their definition of success, but we shouldn’t bow to that pressure,” Mulfinger said. “We should try to live up to our own definition of success...

Author: By Katherine M. Dimengo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Class Day Orators Selected by Class Committee | 5/8/2002 | See Source »

...crown and the big puffy white dress. It’s a little girl’s dream—like you want to be a ballerina or you want to be Cinderella. I wanted to be that girl when I was four. I came home, I practiced the bow. And of course, I fell over myself because I was four years old. Every year I would practice the bow and all the girls who were queen were my role models...

Author: By Mollie H. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Welcome to the Ball | 5/2/2002 | See Source »

...elaborate debuts. And the subject of Texas balls inspires the inevitable discussion of the “Texas bow” (a.k.a. the “Texas Dip” and the “Texas Swan Dive”). The elaborate curtsy is a regionalized version of the bow debutantes did when they were presented to the Queen at St. James’ Court. Player didn’t have to perform it herself but has seen it done. “It’s ridiculous,” she says. “You have...

Author: By Mollie H. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Welcome to the Ball | 5/2/2002 | See Source »

Jauer is a veteran of the bow and laughs when she hears it referred to by one of its various monikers. “I don’t actually know what the Texas bow is because when you’re in Texas you don’t call it the Texas bow,” she says. But she says the bow (which she calls the “Full Court Bow”) is very hard. Not only is it difficult to rise from the floor, bowers are also hampered by their heavy dresses and hoop skirts...

Author: By Mollie H. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Welcome to the Ball | 5/2/2002 | See Source »

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