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Every collector has a story. Mine begins in the stone age. No, not that Stone Age. My personal stone age. For a couple of years in grade school I collected minerals. Granite, pyrite, rose quartz - all of them were hunted down in the wild or purchased at hobby shops, glued onto cardboard supports and lovingly mounted in "presentation boxes," which were presented to no one because no one else was really that interested. But I was. By the time I reached the age of 10, what I didn't know about feldspar was not worth knowing...
...After School Swim program, which works with children in grades four through six at the Baldwin School—a kindergarten through eighth grade Cambridge public school—is a part of the Youth Recreation Program at the Phillips Brooks House Association...
...Gage ’09 replied, “You don’t really have to worry about it.” And thus the game began, one person shouting go, and then all participants fighting, rugby-style, for possession of the ball. “A fifth grade gym class” is how one onlooker characterized the melee. “Dodgeball on steroids,” said another. Fans for the participants looked on, but weren’t sure when to cheer. “I don’t want to root...
Jennifer Sifers was made for ice hockey. When most first grade girls were lacing up figure skates, Sifers just couldn’t make it work.“My feet were too wide to fit,” she laughs.Luckily for the Crimson, she found something more comfortable.Following in her brothers’ blade marks, Sifers headed for the hockey rink at six years old. Since then, she’s taken home three ECAC titles and made three appearances at the NCAAs with the Crimson, impressing coaches and teammates alike with her athletic prowess and go-getter attitude...
...Crimson turnovers often left him a tall order. “The first three goals [Clarkson] got, we were in complete possession of the puck,” Donato said, adding that it was “very tough to assess how [Richter] played when they had so many grade-A chances.” The next day against St. Lawrence, Donato continued rotating goaltenders and returned to senior Justin Tobe, who had started Harvard’s season-opening 5-2 loss to Dartmouth the previous weekend. This time, Tobe took the 5-4 loss. STUCK IN THE MIDDLE...