Word: jock
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...those outside the athletic community will grant it to you willingly. But in the end the “dumb jock” graduates miss much of the rich world of opportunity Harvard offers. And so, that stereotype has a nasty way of making itself into a truth: The jock is indeed dumb...
Today, as I graduate, I will be thinking of my life as a student and as an athlete. I will know that despite the stereotype, the jock need not be dumb and often leaves college more enlightened, by the virtues and lessons of sport, than his or her fellow classmates. In these lessons, there are delights. But there is also sadness, for, as Housman wrote, the rose of my athletic career has withered. It is time for me to step outside and allow aspiring first-graders to play through...
...Theater Jock...
...Gish was a person any jock could pick up with one hand,” she relays. “So she spent a lot of time upside down...
Many recall Kirkland as a jock-filled House notoriously unfriendly to women. Men would actually pound on their glasses with forks whenever a woman entered Kirkland dining hall, McDonald says...