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...hard this week,” Mahon said. “We have some big, big matches coming up.” Harvard will travel to Central Connecticut State tomorrow for its last non-conference matchup against the 13-4 Blue Devils before taking on the rest of the Ancient Eight, starting with Brown on Friday night and Yale on Saturday afternoon. —Staff writer Dixon McPhillips can be reached at fmcphill@fas.harvard.edu...
...League constituents also pride themselves on their commitment to academics. Athletic scholarships, not offered by the Ivy League, are a recent innovation in Patriot sports—in fact, journalist John Feinstein wrote a book several years ago about its basketball conference titled *The Last Amateurs*. However, unlike the Ancient Eight, the Patriot League does participate in the Division I-AA football playoffs, sending its regular-season champ into the bracket as an automatic qualifier, and, in up years, a second squad with an at-large bid. In this way, the annual set of Ivy-Patriot clashes are the best...
...city’s aesthetic extremes—modern ugliness and ethereal classicism—in microcosm. In doing so, they served as solitary points of departure from which I could begin to understand Beijing as a whole.I found that kind of beauty, for instance, at Jianguomen, an ancient astronomical observatory. The rooftop collection of huge, rusted telescopes and instruments is itself surrounded by skyscrapers, and the building also serves as the entrance to one of Beijing’s largest subway stations.The result is a neatly framed artistic interaction between the old and new: The elegant instruments of Chinese...
...Harvard women’s soccer team prepares to attack its first matchup of the season in the Ancient Eight tomorrow against Yale in New Haven, Conn. Recording a 6-1 season so far, with the only loss to Boston College (currently ranked ninth in Div I.), the Crimson is looking at quite a different season from last year...
...duty. Guy Crouchback, the protagonist of Waugh’s 1950s “Sword of Honor” trilogy, is a specimen of this breed. When the middle-aged gentleman is introduced, he seems unlikely to do anything interesting. The only surviving son of an ancient but dwindling Anglo-Catholic family, Guy lives in self-imposed exile, completely removed from his friends and relations while his estranged wife marries and divorces a string of wealthier and more fashionable men. The onset of World War II provides Guy one last chance at redemption and glory, but he soon finds...