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...Connections, tells waitlisted student-clients never to send anything extra to admissions offices without asking permission. Generally, colleges welcome updates on grades and achievements, which is what Sarah Brown-Campello, captain of the soccer and lacrosse teams at Thacher School in Ojai, Calif., is sending to her top choice, Dickinson College (she wants small classes and a chance to take Portuguese), along with a new teacher recommendation. Davison's classmate Jordan Vincent, whose heart is set on University of Virginia, has written a new essay on an unusual accomplishment: as a parliamentarian for the Texas Junior Classical League, a statewide...
...amazing momentum” and has met success “both in terms of the levels of giving and increasing the breadth of giving.” But not all smaller schools are victims of the dearth of experience cited in the survey. Vice President for Development at Dickinson College Donald A. Hasseltine reported that their campaign has gone “very well,” noting that past and current trustees gave about $45 million of the $125 million raised to date. Advancement officers at Williams— one of the survey respondents—reported similar...
...story and base of support reinforce one another. Obama radiates change, which attracts young people, which in turn validates the message of change. He tells young people they can make a difference, and they decide to vote, thus making a difference. "Hope is the thing with feathers," as Emily Dickinson put it, and if Obama can make it fly, it can have deep implications in a society primed to follow the passions of youth. As cultural critic Thomas Frank explained in his book The Conquest of Cool, advertising agencies in the 1960s forever transformed youth from a demographic group...
...digital images may even show more than the naked eye can see; a viewer can enlarge and zoom in on these images to reveal intricate details that might otherwise go unnoticed by the untrained eye. Some works whose delicacy makes their availability severely limited, like the herbarium of Emily Dickinson, can now be viewed online. William P. Stoneman, a librarian at Houghton Library, has seen many benefits to the costly process of digitization. “In the short term, a lot more people are getting a lot easier access to the portions of the collections that have been digitized...
...said. “He started to really light it up and play an all-court game.” Junior Sasha Ermakov and freshmen Will Guzick and Alexei Chijoff-Evans also competed at the ITA Regionals. Ermakov, who was seeded 20th, defeated his second-round opponent from Fairleigh Dickinson, 6-0, 6-4, after a first-round bye, then lost in the third round, 6-7(6), 6-4, 6-3, to eighth-seeded Mark Clemente of Columbia despite taking the first set. Guzick lost his first-round match and also suffered a defeat in the consolation bracket. However...