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Imagine Harvard’s football team blowing out Yale 56-7. Or the basketball team beating up on Princeton 100-20. While such scores will likely only ever exist in our dreams, that has been the pace at which the novice eight boat of the lightweight Radcliffe Black and White has been tearing up the competition this year...
Composed entirely of freshmen, the team is 5-0 on the season, but that statistic is hardly telling of its dominance. While the average margin of victory in a 2,000m race is usually between one and five seconds, the novice eight boat has had victories of 10, 12, 14, 17 and 42 seconds this season against some of the top teams in the nation. In its most recent race last weekend, the boat not only beat the Princeton novice eight, but with a time of 7:02.9 over the 2,000m course, was faster than either the Radcliffe...
...most peaceable of activities has to have a competitive streak. Hey, we didn’t get here by relaxing. During the weeks following spring break, House crew teams take to the water at ungodly hours to practice for the intramural competition. “We take the boat out four times a day...at around 6, 7, 8 or 9 a.m. typically,” says Eliot House Master Lino Pertile, who often grabs an oar and fills in when a rower is out. “All the rowers are enthusiastic and they love...
...current trend of graduating students going into business. “I think it’s appalling, that there’s a panicky assumption that if you don’t start on an upwardly mobile attempt that you’re going to miss the boat,” he says. Following his period of self-discovery and creative maturation, Adams went on to compose minimalist-inspired symphonic orchestrations, including the ever-popular “Short Ride in a Fast Machine.” Today, Adams is well known for composing historically-based operas like...
...pretty excited because he had a couple of options, and he thought this one would be the best fit for him in terms of personnel.“Matt was excited as well, and happy to be in a camp. He’s kind of in the same boat as me.”All three players will look to the example set by Harvard’s current NFL pros, Matt Birk ’98 of the Minnesota Vikings, and Isaiah Kacyvenski ’00 and Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05, both...