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...football, it’s because home is an advantage. Home is where the 12th man lives, five or six Saturdays and eight Sundays a year. Visitors are greeted rudely and noisily. The crowd applauds when you drop a pass or get helmeted in the ribs. It starts yelling whenever the guest tries to speak and the officials are sometimes swayed in favor of the hosts by the beseeching masses...
...against only one loss apiece. Dartmouth is the only squad with a losing record, in fact winless at Memorial Field in four games. Penn is second worst at 2-2, although one of its losses was against crosstown rival Villanova, whose partisans likely made up half of the attending crowd...
That figure belies the common wisdom that, given the advantage from the crowd and not having to travel and being familiar with the confines, the home team usually wins. The rule of thumb in betting football is that home field is worth three points; a game with a three-point home favorite would be a coin flip on neutral turf...
...candidate into office, but to change America—at least for the next two years. The kinds of comments leaving the lips of all the debaters strike a chord not dissimilar from those on the professional circuit. But while they may look the part as they command the crowd in Harvard Hall, many of these politically involved undergrads don’t picture their names on a ballot any time soon...
...foremost culinary literature collections in the world? Curator and prominent American food historian Barbara Ketcham Wheaton was honored for her development of the Harvard cookbook collection last Saturday at an event, “The Cook’s Oracle,” that featured a predominantly senior crowd. “[Cooking] is a subject that touches every life every day,” said Wheaton. “Everybody eats or hopes to eat.” Food historians, culinary journalists, and chefs are just a few examples of people who use the collection for research. During...