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...father decided to take him into the family business and brought his boy along to Austria and Poland to learn all about ham. "They finally dragged me off to Bydgoszcz for a couple of months," Salinger wrote years later. "Where I slaughtered pigs, wagoned through the snow with the big slaughtermaster." Ham was not in his future. Back in the U.S., he made another halfhearted attempt at school, this time at Ursinus College in rural Pennsylvania. He lasted a semester, then drifted back to Manhattan...
After a Friday night date in the city with the Columbia Lions, the Crimson will take on the two-time defending Ivy champion Cornell Big Red tomorrow night in a match-up that’s getting an enormous amount of publicity for an Ivy League basketball game due to the two teams' success...
Both Cornell and Harvard are having phenomenal seasons that have seen them knock off big programs while receiving votes multiple times in the national polls. The Crimson (13-3, 2-0 Ivy) has impressive wins over Boston College and William & Mary, while the Big Red (16-3, 2-0) has taken down Alabama and St. John’s. But it may have been in their losses in which the two teams have been the most impressive. Cornell led then-No.1 Kansas for most of their game before eventually falling by five, while Harvard hung tough with then...
It’s rare for an Ivy League team to possess such an impressive resume—let alone two in the same season—and the pundits are starting to take notice. The Big Red received 38 points in the most recent ESPN/USA Today poll, placing it at 27th in the nation. The Crimson has received a top-25 vote in the AP Poll for three consecutive weeks...
...first time in history, the Ancient Eight has a realistic, though unlikely, chance of being a two-bid league for the Big Dance. And because the conference is the only Division I grouping in the country to not feature a conference tournament, a trip to the tournament is determined by conference record—thus making tomorrow night’s game, along with the Feb. 19 matchup in Cambridge, crucial...