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Which is completely ironic, since the Oxbridge tradition of higher education, upon which Harvard College was self-consciously based, was formed in the 12th and 13th centuries partly in opposition to the University of Paris. The last adhered to the lazy continental practice of off-campus housing, where students would live in the city and connect with their teachers only at lectures. Instead, Oxford and Cambridge sought to develop residential colleges—what the founders of Harvard would later call “a real college” instead of the NYU-like nonsense—to foster student...
...week after receiving the second spot in both the coaches’ and the media’s ECAC preseason poll, the Harvard men’s hockey team garnered more respect in the national preseason rankings, earning the 12th slot in the USCHO.com/CSTV and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine polls. The Crimson was the highest-ranked ECAC team in both polls, beating out No. 13 Cornell in the USCHO.com/CSTV poll and No. 14 Colgate in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll. Boston College, Minnesota, and defending national champion Wisconsin were among the top three teams in both polls...
...whoever is out of conference is to help prepare for the Ivies, so it’s important to pull those out.” Trimble led the Crimson with 12 kills and a .556 hitting percentage, improving upon her season percentage of .429, good for 12th in the nation entering last night’s match. Freshman libero Katherine Kocurek finished with 12 digs. Harvard will continue its Ivy League schedule on Friday in Hanover, N.H. against Dartmouth, a team they beat 3-1 less than a week ago. “We took care of them last time...
...performance of the Harvard men’s golf team’s freshman was one of the few bright spots in a tough weekend at the McLaughlin tournament, hosted by St. John’s University. The Crimson finished 12th out of 16 competing teams, with Akron taking the number one spot...
...Iranian patron, about to be subject to sanctions by the West for its nuclear ambitions. Those ambitions, in turn, are meant to serve Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's even larger Islamist vision of a cataclysmic showdown with the infidel West as a harbinger of the return of the 12th Imam and the End of Days...