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...senior oarsman for the varsity lightweights, is now an indispensable component of the Harvard varsity. But had things gone differently in his freshman year at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D.C., rowing might never have even crossed his mind.“I started rowing in ninth grade because I tried out for JV football as a 135-pounder,” Benkreira says.In a sport largely confined to elite private institutions, Wilson fielded the only public high school crew program in all of Washington, D.C., an area dominated by St. Alban’s and St. Andrew?...
...current Loeb Experimental Theatre production “Lady Windermere’s Fan” that runs through this Saturday, a chance to get out of playing sports resulted in the discovery of acting, a pursuit she has been deeply involved with ever since. I was in seventh grade at an all-girls school, and our brother school was putting on a play and needed five girls to be in it, so instead of sports, which was really the only thing to do at my school, I got to be in a play. From that first role as Hippolyta...
...hardwood that his rushing talent was first suspected, when the coach pushed him to try out for the football squad. Ho had never even heard of the sport before entering the eighth grade, but the youngster tried out nonetheless...
...teaching SAT strategies to the denizens of Park Avenue. But is tutoring miniature millionaires with drug addictions easy? Well yes, it actually is. As Mr. Thayer, the father of Noah’s two students puts it, “All you do is teach seventh-grade math to eleventh-graders...You’re paid to be friends with my children and photocopy words out of the dictionary...
PRINCETON'S STUDENT BODY president placed the ball in the administration's court last week with a substantial critique of the school's grade-capping policy. Today the Daily Princetonian offers a volley from the dean of the college, dismissing the critique, which noted that Princeton admitted more academically talented students in the period when GPAs began to rise. The dean's response is in two parts: 1) The reasoning is flawed; and 2) Even if it weren't flawed, Princeton still has "the responsibility to hold [students] to higher standards." It's unclear where this leaves the student body...