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...Union archivist Ellen Fladger. Fladger says that when Union and Harvard faced off in an 1875 Rowing Association Regatta, “a crisis ensued when each team claimed priority to the color.” Though Union lore holds that the New York college forced Harvard to abandon the magenta, Fladger says the truth is that Harvard alums precipitated the shift back to crimson...
...organization,” says Swami Tyagananda, who leads the Harvard Hindu Fellowship. “In fact, we believe that changing labels is irrelevant—what is vital is a change of heart. In order to appreciate the Hindu world view, it is not necessary to abandon the tradition in which one has been brought...
Faculty opposition to a move in the past has centered around a reluctance to abandon the historical connections between HLS and its Cambridge campus...
...Witness the carnage after the sharp, unexpected crash on corporate I.T. spending late in 2000: losses convinced IBM to all but abandon in-house PC manufacturing by farming assembly out to subcontractors. Hewlett-Packard and Compaq are trying to merge. Dell was hurt by the downturn, too. The company laid off 1,700 workers last year, its first redundancies ever. But it still managed to increase sales by 18.3% in 2001, showing a profit of $2.1 billion...
...Crimson was determined not to let that happen again, and its early outburst forced Providence to abandon its possession game as it became increasingly desperate to score...