Word: jocks
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...woes, nor accuse Harvard athletes of being coddled through college. Harvard athletes work harder than the average student, know better how to balance their schedules and handle various commitments and do not receive any advantages, especially compared to athletes at non-Ivy colleges. And, even at Harvard, for every jock who doesn’t do the reading, there is a stoner or a singer or a playwright who hasn’t done it either—dumb jocks are not the standard. The Harvard athlete should be praised, because unlike other students who join activities throughout high school...
...Campbell and Swann are continuing a very British tradition of urban realism that stretches from Atkinson Grimshaw's 19th century nightscapes to John Piper's records of war-torn London. Duncan Swann feels part of an "urban landscape" movement that includes people like Campbell, who mentions among his influences Jock McFadyen, Frank Auerbach and David Hepher, from earlier generations. Hepher is known for graffiti-scrawled tower blocks, McFadyen paints rundown roadside bars and sports stadiums, while Auerbach obsessively records the environs of his London studio. Swann, 33, will start a postgraduate course at London's Royal College...
Industrialist, parliamentarian, and suave football diplomat who brought the World Cup to South Korea, Chung Mong Joon wants you to know he's also a jock. Flying down to southern Cheju Island from Seoul to watch a football game a week before the Cup, Chung, 50, is leaning back in his seat and pointing to his left elbow, which he banged up playing basketball. He shifts his left shoulder: crushed bones and severed tendons in a ski-racing accident. Then there's the right knee fractured by a football tackle. Pointing to a scar on his right hand, he smiles...
...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...