Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ironically, it will be for Beren's competitive talents and his family's wealth that he will long be remembered at Harvard. His father, a member of the class of 1947, donated the money for a new eight-court varsity tennis center that bears both his and Adam's name...
...they are only two heroes of Harvard's best athletic year ever. Departing with Allard and Fusco is perhaps the finest slew of athletes to grace the Harvard fields in recent memory. Graduating today is Adam Dixon, who helped bring a string of Heptagonal trophies to Cambridge for the men's track team. And Howard Sands, who turned the Crimson's men's tennis team into a national powerhouse...
...Adam Dixon...
...every year that the Harvard track team loses an Adam Dixon to graduation. Three-time All-Americans don't come easy in any sport or at any school, so one can see why Dixon is special...
Shortly before retiring a year ago after 30 years of coaching Harvard track teams, Bill McCurdy observed that Dixon had "more athletic ability than anybody I've coached." Current Coach Frank Haggerty agrees: "Adam is one of the greatest performers we've ever had, without question...