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Sociology is one of those loose terms—like “life coach?? and “low-fat”— which could mean pretty much anything. Books like “Blink” and “Freakonomics” have brought fame to this broad, vague area of studies, but even its aficionados are hard-pressed to define it. In reality, Sociology, the “study of groups,” combines psychology, economics, history, statistics and government. Undergrads taking Sociology range from wannabe Social Studies concentrators...
After seven years in rowing shells waiting attentively for the coach??s directions, you would think it easy to formulate commands of my own. You would be mistaken. Like all first efforts, mine at giving instructions were awkward. “Alright guys, we want to keep the shoulders quiet and steady, and change directions from the hips. Understand what I’m saying?” Those words, in my head so sensible and accurate, were initially met with bemused looks and, a little later, with unenthusiastic action...
...Growing up is an odd, very obscure process. To a non-rower, my musings on the psychological gap between the coach??s launch and a rowing shell will undoubtedly sound like a Hallmark card gone awry. Yet to me, my journey through rowing, progressing from slow, unwieldy, and largely unsuccessful boats on the Schuylkill, to quick, efficient boats on the Charles, to the coach's launch is the perfect metaphor for my journey through life. I've learnt that nothing ever gets any simpler, and experience is the best teacher...
...He’s definitely one of the best coaches I’ve known,” freshman sabre Craig Gorin says. “He somehow built this team up to be extremely cohesive. We’re definitely the coach??s team, out of anyone in the Ivies, probably even in the country.”—Staff writers Alex McPhillips and Karan Lodha contributed to the reporting of this article.—Staff writer Alexandra C. Bell can be reached at acbell@fas.harvard.edu...
...captain Laura Odorczyk said. “But we have a lot of good forwards coming in to make a big difference for next year, and I think it’s only going to go up from here.” Harvard coach Stephanie Erickson and the assistant coach??s recruiting efforts this past spring paid off, as the Crimson will feature an incoming class of 10 to 12 freshmen in the fall. It’s a good sign for a team whose chief concern in 2005 was depth. “I think they?...