Sentence examples for terrific student from inspiring English sources

"She was a great kid, a terrific student," Mr. Greene said on the telephone from Brooklyn, where he now practices law.

A week later members of the group join the terrific student ensemble Juilliard415 for Handel's glorious oratorio "Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno" ("The Triumph of Time and Truth").

"He may not be steeped in the political experience of a Bob Dole or a Howard Baker, but he's a terrific student," said Mr. Alexander, who was the first to tell Mr. Frist that Mr. Lott had withdrawn.

"At Harvard we get terrific students, and we turn out terrific students later on," Mr. Fitzsimmons said.

Many terrific students come from India and Pakistan, but virtually no students come from Indonesia or Poland.

Still, the problem with the way the matching process works out, according to experts like Barry A. Farber, a professor of psychology and education at Teachers College at Columbia University, is that it weeds out "not just marginal students but terrific students".

"These are terrific students," said William Powers Jr., president of U.T. "Often, they may have gone to a high school where they didn't have a calculus class or Advanced Placement classes.

You've never competed against the major leaguers those terrific students who challenged themselves in high school and you're not sure how you'd do.

"It was always terrific when students asked to change things in ways that were doable," Simmons recalled.

"I have seen some terrific graduate students in the labs of young faculty members, and the faculty members benefited dramatically," he says.

He was terrific but the student body was larger than I desired and the players were mostly large, as well -- wasn't sure I could contribute.