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...Beijing University first-year Sherry Zhao, Harvard will be her first taste of America.The first-time visitor to the United States is crashing at Eliot House, interacting with professors, and trying her hand at throwing clay at the University’s ceramics studio.“My hosts are very nice, the air is very fresh, and the campus is just very beautiful,” she said.Zhao is one of 39 students from Asian universities visiting Harvard this week as part of the Harvard College in Asia Project (HCAP), a rapidly expanding program that offers cultural exchange between...
...performance was solid, the Crimson still struggled to shake the rust from the long wait. “We haven’t had as much practice as other people, and we haven’t sailed in currents as strong as at Charleston,” junior skipper Clay Johnson said. “We sailed pretty well, but on Saturday, we just made some costly mistakes. Sunday we sailed better, and we didn’t make as many mistakes.” The A division team of Johnson and crew Emily Simon totaled 81 points, which...
...world record. Without Davis, Hedrick's quest could end early, as the Netherlands are now the favorites. U.S. Speedskating coach Bart Schoute didn't expect Davis' decision-he refused to comment after the media relayed Davis' announcement to him. Davis also cites altruistic reasons for his choice: U.S. skaters Clay Mull and Charles Ryan Leveille are pursuit specialists, any may now get a chance to skate in the Olympics since Davis has pulled out. "I didn't think it was fair to take away a chance for someone else to skate," Davis says. "Everyone has dreams...
Haddock and Riley were sworn in by outgoing leadership, Matther J. Glazer ’06 and Clay T. Capp ’06, at the beginning of the meeting. Glazer and Capp received standing ovations from the Council as they left...
...Victorian goldmining town of Ballarat in 1935, this daughter of an engineer and craft teacher naturally, it seems, sought salvation from the ground. As an apprentice to Ivan McMeekin at his Mittagong pottery in the '50s, she became as expert as a geologist at analyzing the mineral contents of clay. Later, at the studios she set up in France and Tasmania, she was forever "digging and scrounging and carting and milling and sieving clays and rocks and ashes," Hanssen Pigott recalled. What she was looking to unearth were the means to perfectly render her forms - the ideal mix of clays...