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...Berren Tennis Center, hidden behind a wall of trees near the outdoor track, eight courts are available for undergraduate use on a walk-on basis. Unfortunately, the Beren Tennis Center is also the home of the men's and women's tennis squads who have first priority to the courts...

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: Serve This! Tennis Enthusiasts Have Their Stage | 10/8/1994 | See Source »

...Working with the players I was first struck by their experience," Benson says. "When I was here, we were relying on walk-one who often had no experience before coming to Harvard. This year, if you're a walk-on, you've got to be very experienced...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: As Superstar Leaves, Benson Leads Water Polo | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

Movie audiences across the country are warming to "Rudy," the true story of Dan "Rudy" Ruettiger, who overcame seemingly insurmountable odds to play for the Notre Dame football team as a walk...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Angell, | Title: 'Rudy' a Treat for Young Restic | 11/9/1993 | See Source »

...Restic's freshman year, Ruettiger was a senior trying to make the team as a walk-on. In the movie, Ruettiger twice walks up to a bulletin board with the names of players who will dress for the weekend's game...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Angell, | Title: 'Rudy' a Treat for Young Restic | 11/9/1993 | See Source »

...much less of the second. In the sense in which "gossipy, though there are some wonderful anecdotes about acquaintances who later became as famous as Merrill, or more famous: the young Alison Lurie, the old Alice B. Toklas, and the former sweetheart of Eugenio Montale all get walk-on parts. But "gossip" can mean not only a set of topics but a kind of language, the kind which fixates on names and dates, on who did what with Merrill when, and sometimes why. In this sense "gossip" is the enemy of the aesthetic, and the ally of all those...

Author: By Stephen L. Burt, | Title: The Prosaic Reveries of James Merrill | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

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