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When it became clear to Corporation members that Summers’ support at other schools wouldn’t outweigh his unpopularity at FAS, the fellows decided to preempt the blow that a vote of no confidence would have dealt, according to the source close to the Corporation...
...Gordon Cairnie. He was purported to have hosted the first painting exhibition of e.e. cummings, to have stocked copies of the first printing of Ulysses smuggled in under the coats of various customers and, much later, to stock copies of W.H. Auden’s “Platonic Blow...
...says Henry Rosovsky, then dean of the Faculty. “I don’t think it was a big issue [on campus]. Except for the gay rights groups....They really wanted it.”“That may have been more of a blow for others more naïve than I,” Schatz says.TWENTY-FIVE YEARS LATERA similar bill was eventually passed by the Faculty in 1985, before the Massachusetts General Court did in 1987. The experience of gay undergraduates today is very different.“I feel like Harvard?...
...school mark for most non-conference wins in Sullivan’s tenure, and easily handled travel partner Dartmouth in two straight games heading into exam period. After a draining loss in the abusive atmosphere of Yale’s John J. Lee Ampitheater, Harvard bounced back to blow out Brown on the road and dispatch Columbia in New York. The Crimson was one win over Cornell away from taking four of five games on its toughest road trip of the year and returning to Lavietes Pavilion in great shape for a critical series against Princeton and Penn. That scenario...
...Though the successful finish, coupled with the Crimson’s strong non-conference performance, had Harvard poised for its fifth consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament, a poor ECAC playoff run could have changed that.And for a time, it seemed as if the Crimson might blow its opportunity. Fifth-seeded St. Lawrence took Game 1 of the best-of-three quarterfinal series and led 2-1 after two periods in Game 2.But Harvard scored two goals in the third period to even the series before exploding for eight scores in Game 3. The Crimson carried its offensive momentum into...