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Finally, in the third game, Dartmouth put up a fight. The Harvard serve receiving had some holes, and the Dartmouth servers took advantage. Even though Harvard took the lead early, Dartmouth pulled back to 11-9 with the help of a five-point run. The Crimson got stuck in some rotations where the passing simply broke down, and so did its consistency. However, with the help of some key blocks the Crimson was able to overcome a subpar .146 hitting percentage and finish its Ivy League...
There were some good individual efforts as well. Junior middle hitter Hart, who played superbly in last Tuesday's game against Quinnipiac, had another solid effort, going for six kills and 12 digs. Jellin finished with sixteen digs and 41 set assists...
There is an excellent education lurking here for the child with an inner flashlight. The best teachers arrive early and leave late and wrestle to make everything they teach mean something, and they all show up at the football game at the end of the week, their own kids in tow, cheering their students on and mixing and meddling with their lives in the bleachers. Walk down the halls, stop and listen in, and you can hear those moments of collision and discovery. "Some of you were complaining that the questions I was asking about The Scarlet Letter were making...
...times it seems that the faculty is engaged in a giant game of chicken--and some kids have learned to take advantage of it. For many, the extent of their forethought is making plans for the weekend, and even those are subject to change at the last minute. They get jobs, not necessarily to save for college but to buy a $400 leather jacket. So many kids skip their homework that most teachers stop assigning more than 15 minutes' worth: ask too much, push too hard, and the students will give up, drop out, become a menace to society...
Chamberlain, who died last week at the age of 63, not only dominated basketball, his presence clarified the character of the game. If sports were poems, baseball would be a sonnet, basketball free verse; the thing finds its form according to who is doing it. Chamberlain was responsible for major rule changes that altered basketball's structure--all delimiting the ability of giants to operate in the sky over a 10-ft.-high basket. By his athleticism, he proved that basketball required the world's best athletes, not simply the tallest. And, in a way, he also showed...