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Harvard’s library system—currently a sprawling, disjointed structure of 73 separate entities—is “not simply the jewel in [Harvard’s] crown,” Hamburger said...
...crown, and it is in disrepair,” he said. “Our concern might well be that efficiency doesn’t become an excuse for expediency...
...time last year, the Harvard women’s hockey team fell in a 1-0 heartbreaker to Boston College in the Beanpot final, failing to defend its 2008 tournament title. The loss sparked a fire in this year’s Crimson, which hopes to reclaim the Beanpot crown tonight at 8 p.m. at Bright Hockey Center...
...fall of 2006. Located in a shady grove atop the Santa Lucia Mountains in San Luis Obispo County, the centuries-old gnarled oak had the image of a six-legged, lizard-like being meticulously scrawled into its trunk, the nearly three-foot-tall beast topped with a rectangular crown and two large spheres. "I was really the first one to come across it who understood that it was a Chumash motif," says Saint Onge, referring to the native people who painted similar designs on rock formations from San Luis Obispo south through Santa Barbara and into Malibu...
Amazingly, Saint Onge had just identified the West Coast's only known Native American arborglyph, one long hidden behind private property signs. But the discoveries didn't stop there. After spending more time at the site, Saint Onge realized that the carved crown and its relation to one of the spheres was strikingly similar to the way the constellation Ursa Major - which includes the Big Dipper - related to the position of Polaris, the North Star. "But as a paleontologist, I live my life looking down at the ground," says Saint Onge, who runs an archaeological-consulting firm out of nearby...