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...Senior Clara Blattler knows how to clear obstacles.Having set the Harvard women’s pole vaulting record last year at the Heptagonal Championships by clearing 12 feet, six inches, the Leverett House senior is looking forward to her next big challenge: Oxford.Named one of the 2008 recipients of the highly competitive and highly coveted Rhodes Scholarship in November, the Brookline, Mass. native will be joining the ranks of the Oxford Blues following her graduation this June.“I first heard about it and thought about applying at the beginning of last summer,” Blattler reminisced...
...Christensen’s 1.77 meter leap in the high jump placed her first in the event, with Emde taking second with her season-best jump of 1.67 meters. Senior co-captain Molly Boyle threw a personal best 16.25 meter distance to win the weight throw event and classmate Clara Blattler captured the win in the pole vault, clearing 3.75 meters. Junior Aishlinn O’Callaghan’s 2:12.40 time in the 800 meter was her personal best and qualified her for the ECAC Championships. The men’s side did not fare as well, finishing...
...toughest person in your entire career to interview and why? -Narendra Trivedi, Santa Clara, Calif.The feistiest interview I've ever had was with Ross Perot in May of 1992. He was running for the president of the United States and at that time he was leading George Herbert Walker Bush and Bill Clinton in the polls. He was very combative, very feisty but very engaging. That means it was a very demanding interview from my standpoint because I had to try to elicit information and not get involved in any type of personal exchange. It was a very interesting tight...
...Indoors is a lot different from outdoors and from cross-country and Claire’s cross-country.” The women’s squad also offered notable showings in the field events, including three top-10 finishes. In the pole vault, Stanton and classmate Clara Blattler cleared a 10th place height of 3.45 meters (11’3”) and a runner-up height of 3.70 meters (12’1”), respectively. Becky Christensen led Harvard high jumpers with a 1.73 meter (5’8”) jump. On the men?...
...exempt from Faust’s wit. Everyone’s story—whether they’re a private or a general, a slave or a Harvard scholar—is fair game. Faust tells us about Walt Whitman’s attempts to nurse wounded soldiers, Clara Barton’s mission to exhume and identify the bodies of unknown soldiers, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.’s (if you were wondering, Class of 1836) search for his soldier son. But she’s most concerned with the men who were buried under cracker...