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...rare turn two years ago, Harvard students were shut out of the Rhodes Scholarship competition. Last year, the College came back with a vengeance, boasting six awardees. This year, three winners gave the Crimson a happy medium. Clara L. Blattler ’08, Sammy K. Sambu ’08, and Shayak Sarkar ’07 were awarded the prestigious full scholarships to Oxford University, which include in their criteria “literary and scholastic attainments,” “success in sports,” and a commitment to service, morality and leadership. Blattler...
...antagonise the Phoenix of Arabia: her body is round and fat, few weigh lesse then fifty pound, are reputed of more for wonder then for food, greasie stomackes may seeke after them, but to the delicate, they are offensive and of no nourishment,” according to Clara Pinto-Correia’s book “Return of the Crazy Bird: The Sad, Strange Tale of the Dodo.” But the Europeans brought with them rats, cats, and pigs, which swarmed the island and devoured dodo eggs until the bird disappeared from Mauritius.A few managed...
...caliber recruits and respect from national pundits won’t come simply by beating upon New Havenites and suburban-dwelling Jersey Tigers. It will come from beating the likes of UCLA, UC Santa Clara, Wake Forest, and SMU, perpetual national powerhouses of the soccer scene...
Google, Microsoft and General Electric came to Santa Clara, Calif., last weekend, and all but begged graduates of one of the world's top engineering schools to work for them. Google spent $200,000 to be the lead sponsor of the four-day-long reunion of 3,500 alumni. Microsoft's research center in Hyderabad came calling. The CEO of GE, Jeff Immelt, already employs 1,500 graduates and says he needs more. Stanford? MIT? Harvard? Nope. This was a gathering of graduates of the Indian Institutes of Technology...
...nationals. However, based on the strength of her previous performances, Christensen earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Championships, to be held in Sacramento, Calif. from June 6-9. The pole vault was also an area of strength for the Crimson, with three strong junior vaulters. Clara Blattler took first at indoor Heptagonals, while co-captain Sally Stanton and Jitka Tomas were competitive all season. Tomas showed some versatility by also placing second in the triple jump at the event. Strong Harvard performances dotted the pentathlon as well, with sophomore Shannon Flahive and senior co-captain Julia Pederson posting...