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...researching a term paper. The remaining 1,700 or so accepted students certainly have top grades and SAT scores, but they also tend to demonstrate some uncommon excellence in one area or another. Just think of how many of your friends can be identified by a single phrase: a piano player; a Crimson writer; a field hockey stud. “Excellence, whatever form it is, is a surrogate for personal qualities,” says Fitzsimmons. And indeed, it’s personal qualities—discipline, teamwork, perseverance, etc.—that the most passionate supporters...
...math problems, spelling and handwriting homework due each Friday and a mix of other assignments to be turned in at the end of each month. I quickly began to ponder one tough math problem: If we get home from work at 6 p.m., and we set aside time for piano practice, dinner, bath, a dollop of casual chitchat and all that homework, how do we get our daughter to bed by 8 p.m. for a good night's sleep? Answer: It can't be done...
...very narrow spectrum across which students are measured,” said men’s tennis head coach David Fish ’55. “I see a lot of different expressions of intelligence, [and] it may happen that if you play the piano or the violin that there might be a closer alignment with what is tested,” he said. “But I don’t think that comes even close to describing the whole story, a whole person...
...hard to pinpoint exactly where this gleam comes from. Frontman Halstead’s vocals are as whisperingly fragile as on his recent solo album, Sleeping on Roads. The instrumentation is a sort of chamber country affair, with pedal steel and keyboards filling out the central piano and guitar. The key may be the inspired use of space—the music never builds to more than a jaunty bounce (as on “Billy Oddity”). A plangent line like “It’s hard to miss you,” sung repeatedly over...
Part of the secret is the surreptitious highlights in the music. “The Battle of the Broken Hearts ” subtly blends chimes into the folksy piano, while the band brings a juicy Hammond organ along for the ride on “Tinkers Blues”. But the fact is that this is good songwriting: these could be played as rock songs at double the tempo and still sound good. It’s just that Mojave 3 like the swoony sound. If you feel the need to swoon, or simply sigh enigmatically, check this...