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...Across the river, Harvard placed fourth out of six teams at the Staake Trophy team race hosted by Boston College. The team tied third-place MIT with a 5-5 round robin record, but lost to the Engineers in a sail-off tiebreaker. BC and Tufts were tied atop the leader board, but the hosts won in another sail-off to take the trophy. At the Metro Series 6 at Brandeis University, the Crimson took sixth overall. Junior skipper Robby McIntosh and freshman crew Margaret Wang sailed their boat to a sixth place finish, while junior skipper Marion Guillaume...
...Dartmouth hurler Jeff Wilkerson stymied Harvard in the opener, blanking the Crimson over the course of seven innings and forcing a temporary tie atop the standings. Wilkerson allowed eight hits and struck out six in his complete-game shutout, besting opponent Javier Castellanos and Harvard...
Kaavya Viswanathan did not fall, as some would posit, from the glorious perch of a published author. Kaavya’s roost was atop the same rickety tower of meritocracy that so many of us built on our way to our Harvard admission...
...Bulldogs from divisional contention, leaving Harvard and the Big Green to duke it out over the course of their home-and-home series. The Crimson will advance to the Ivy Championship Series by winning two or more games. If Dartmouth prevails in three of four, though, it will finish atop the Red Rolfe...
...Harvard students are the winners of the 90s. Perched atop the American meritocracy, we are supported by good families, decent educations, and above all, futures. Yet I sense a kind of spiritual aching for something more, some transcendence that people currently attempt to stuff with work, achievement, or wealth. Fitzgerald knew of these pangs firsthand. To the end of his days he flirted searchingly with his Catholic faith and clung to a cloying obsession with the way others perceived...