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...This trip was a shot in the dark: no plans, all instinct. Despite the fact that this escapade was one of many Gilberti family Italian road-trips in which my dad hugged the ancient hillsides at sickening speeds while I doled out peaks of Toblerone we’d purchased at the Autogrill, it takes the award for craziest. Since my grandfather had arrived at Ellis Island on a boat from Naples in 1925, the goal of this reverse voyage was to locate Papa’s birthplace, tool around the town, drink a caffé, and say we?...
...stage, as they say, was set.Two 9-2 teams, tied for first in the Ivy League? Check. An emerging Ancient Eight rivalry? Check. A packed, noisy Lavietes Pavilion? Check.Star power? Check. Sort of.As Harvard and Cornell prepared to do battle for the top spot in the Ivy League and a potential trip to the NCAA Tournament last Saturday at Lavietes, all of the Crimson’s star power stood at the ready.But Cornell’s?Now that’s another story, and one with an ending that left a Big Red faithful—substantial given...
...incoming freshman class, does not bump his AI up to 171, he will not be admitted to the Class of 2012 next month. Nor can he attend traditional top dog Penn—another suitor mentioned in the Times article—which had its string of three straight Ancient Eight titles snapped this season. Harvard can recruit athletes with lower AI profiles than it has in years past if it is already above its athletic AI minimum or if it counterbalances them with higher AI recruits in other sports. This is not only kosher but a bright idea...
...ancient custom of smoking hookah hasn’t typically raised health concerns among college students...
...knowing his Ovid—would lead to an epic meeting with Matt Damon.Harvard’s Classics department is often called upon to perform translations, from salad dressing labels and Vatican documents to military mottoes and movie lines, as the University’s scholars of the ancient world show a surprising impact on our own.In Schafer’s case, a department administrator found him in the graduate student lounge and told him that the dialect coach for “The Good Shepherd” was looking for someone to translate a passage from Ovid?...