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While Harvard’s culture of amateur athletics might have been new to Kerr, it hasn’t prevented him from instilling a professional approach and attaching a seriousness to the program...
...team was further given a shot in the arm with the return of David Lingman, who was a member of the team as a freshman two years ago but had taken time off to play as an amateur on the professional circuit. Lingman and Chu quickly formed an indomitable 1-2 combination at the top of the Harvard lineup...
...athlete’s career. Along nearly all of my fellow graduating athletes (save Olympians), I will return to sport as merely an individual. Never again will I play in the name of a school, be it Harvard University, Deerfield Academy or Wandell Elementary School. For the amateur athlete, one of the greatest motivations is to play for something bigger than one’s self, to toil for something that dwarfs a single individual’s importance. My opportunity to do this in the athletic sphere largely ends today...
...wait, it appears, was worth it. After being selected much lower than expected in last year’s Major League Baseball amateur draft, Harvard senior Ben Crockett chose to take a temporary pass on the big leagues and return to school. Now, a year later, he has just completed an extraordinary senior season, he’s in line to receive his Harvard degree tomorrow and he’s heading to the big leagues, after...
...undergraduate at Harvard, the Indiana native spent his time toying with antennae atop the roofs of Hollis Hall and Adams House. He was so interested in amateur radio that he helped to reestablish the long defunct Harvard Wireless Club...