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Over the weekend, the Harvard men’s and women’s ski teams traveled to Prospect Mountain, Vt., to participate in the Williams College Winter Carnival. Amidst grueling conditions and a tough field, the Crimson finished 10th amongst the participating universities with a total score of 345 points. The Dartmouth Big Green came out on top, winning its fifth straight carnival with a final tally of 898.0. The University of Vermont and Middlebury finished second and third with 843.0 and 806.5 points, respectively. In the alpine events, winds of upto 50 MPH and poor visibility provided tough...
...Amidst a retinue that included everything from superhero impersonators on stilts to a group of students promenading as giant fruit and yellow-suited men on Segway scooters, Johansson sat nestled in the backseat of a Bentley convertible between two drag-clad Hasty Pudding ambassadors...
...HOARS WERE NOT WELCOME! Third president Leonard Hoar, class of 1650, (1672-1675) was accused of cruelty towards students. Amidst other problems, he resigned...
Pusey was not alone—the presidents of Boston University, the University of Massachusetts and Brandeis University also resigned amidst the turmoil of the 1970s. According to a February 1970 statement from Louis M. Lyons of WGBH-TV & -FM, “None of these men had reached the time of retirement. [Pusey] asks to be relieved in June 1971 instead of holding on to 1973...on the ground that Harvard must open a new chapter of development that calls for younger leadership...
...While a man hollers behind the kids, the boy lets one ring loose just as the last ring he threw loops down and around the intended pole, a moment of serendipity amidst a controlled chaos...