Word: crews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brown defense surrendered more total yardage than any other crew in the Ivy League, and only winless Columbia gave up more total points. Last season, a more experienced Bruins defensive unit rated tops in the Ancient Eight, recording four shutouts and allowing Ivy opponents just over seven points per contest...
...used to think Harvard was pretty homogeneous--upper middle-class kids," says David C. Hsu '89 of Houston. But after spending a year at the College and working on dorm crew last week, the editor-in-chief of the Harvard Political Review says he has changed his mind and revels in the diversity he has found...
...make the argument that they're elitist, but I'm a scholarship student. And I went to public school," says Forsyth, who rows crew and is also involved in the Crimson Key Society and Model United Nations...
...full of trash. She thereupon heaved them into a bin that was taken to a garbage- compaction area. But the following Monday, Continental's data processors discovered they were short $227 million in checks that the bank had honored but not yet entered in its computers. A crew of janitors then began searching the immediate area, to no avail. Finally, after an anxious hunt, they located the documents in the compaction room amid bundles of wastepaper mingled with noxious cigarette butts and cardboard coffee cups. If the checks had not been found, Continental would have faced the laborious...
...recipient) to a larger proportion of students (66%) than any other university. In fact, notes James Miller, director of financial aids, "50% of the students wouldn't see the front door if it weren't for financial aid." The struggle is not so severe for that blessed crew known as "legacies" -- youngsters like Michael Mailer, son of Norman, and Caroline Kennedy, daughter of J.F.K. -- with family members who went to Harvard. At least one in three of these slides under the rope, in contrast to one in six among ordinary applicants...