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...game of cricket is a mystery to most Americans, but in recent years it has found its way to Harvard...
...Harvard Cricket Club was formed by Peter Hannam '87, with Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III as the club's faculty advisor. The club began with modest goals and meager facilities...
...fourth year of existence, the Cricket Club is gradually gaining some respect as a sport. The Under-graduate Council gave the club a $197 grant last year to buy bats, stumps (wickets) and batting gloves...
...generations, Britain has reveled in a system of weights and measures that confounds the outside world. Instead of using the no-nonsense metric system, Britons measured their cricket pitches in chains (22 yds.), their horse races in furlongs (220 yds.), their meat in pounds and their beer in pints. Bowing to a proposal of the European Community, however, the British have tentatively agreed to convert their systems to metric, starting...
...will the troy ounce (31 g, vs. 28 g for the standard ounce) because gold-bullion operations couldn't survive without it. As for the pint, the measure of morning milk and evening ale for millions, London hopes the Community will agree that it just wouldn't be cricket to abolish...