Word: decathalon
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...early desire to prove everybody wrong: "Academically, he continued to lag, and various members of the faculty implied-or said outright-that he would never amount to anything. The athletic coaches disagreed: the following year Bud won letters in track and football, finished first in the school decathalon, and set a record by doing one thousand straight push-ups. He might have done more, but a teacher, worried that the youth would strain his heart, ordered him to stop...
...about the grades any more than an academic decathalon is about free throw shooting. Like all else, it is about dollars and cents...
...about the grades any more than an academic decathalon is about throwing javelins. Like all else, it is about dollars and cents...
Michael Hartl '96 says he chooses his dinner carefully. Although a casual observer might assume from Hartl's painstaking attention to nutrition that he is training for a decathalon or possibly a swimsuit competion, Hartl says he is merely keeping in shape. hall counter. Hartl, who admits he oftenchooses his dinner with an eye to Harvard DiningServices' (HDS) new "Nutrition Bites" nutrientcounters, says tonight's choice--spaghetti withmarinara sauce and meatballs, and a salad oflettuce and broccoli--is fairly standard...
...Fiedler competes in the decathalon for the Dartmouth track team. He placed third in the pentathlon at the indoor heptagonal games as a sophomore...