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...faculty outlawed the game because of annual injuries, students held a funeral for the tradition, complete with a coffin for the deceased football and eulogy written partly in Latin. In Adams House, students participated in a raft race on the Charles River. One year, MIT students entered the contest and sped to the finish by hiding an engine under their raft...
...Lynda Laux Bachard, one of the contest’s coordinators. Redd hasn’t been the only Harvard woman with the winning combination of brains and beauty. Beginning in August 1957 as “The 10 Best-Dressed College Girls in America,” the contest has attracted a plethora of Harvard’s finest. One of the 1957 winners, Radcliffe graduate Priscilla Bowden ’61, was the first woman accepted to the editorial staff of The Crimson. Glamour quoted a Princeton man describing Bowden as “an Ivy intellectual...
...wasn’t until the late ’60s when the contest changed from “Best Dressed” to “Top 10 College Girls.” As the application procedure changed—the previous requirement was the submission of photographs in three outfits— Harvard women continued to get recognized by Glamour, with at least 13 winners since 1980. Last year, Ajarae D. Johnson ’02 won Glamour’s “Queen G” contest, a competition open to women of all ages...
...Mary Lou Schiavo ’76, who achieved further Glamour fame after taking home two more awards from the magazine. In the ’80s, Schiavo, then inspector general for the Department of Transportation, won Glamour’s “Working Woman” contest. Then, after writing a book, teaching aeronautical engineering and working for the California law firm Baum & Hedland, she took home one of Glamour’s “Woman of the Year” awards in 1997, a title recently shared by big names like Salma Hayek and Eve Ensler...
Harvard has not recorded a scoreless tie since 1995, when a contest with Cornell ended in a 0-0 draw. Saturday’s game was the team’s longest since last year’s NCAA first-round match against Hartford, which remained scoreless through four overtimes before Totman scored the game-winner...