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...friend, Crimson captain Matt Vance says. “It’s kind of surreal.”In the meantime, in his last go-round as a collegiate baseballer, Jenkins will try to nail down the second-base job and help propel Harvard to another Ivy League crown. He’s been waiting.—Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...
...there will be no dancing for the Harvard women’s basketball team. The Crimson, the preseason pick to repeat as Ivy champions, fell 68-62 to Dartmouth in Friday’s league playoff game in New York City. Harvard will share the league crown with Cornell and the Big Green, and the Big Red earned the league’s lone NCAA bid in a 64-47 win over Dartmouth yesterday. For Harvard, it was the decisive, crushing blow in a season of incredible expectations in which the Crimson was the odds-on favorite...
...Tokyo duringWorld War II. (As Schwartz writes withcharacteristic limpness, “One might saythat my childhood insularity was a formof hereditary protection in whose shade,like a pale, delicate mushroom, I grew.”)She excels at sports, and one fateful daymeets and beats the Crown Prince in agame of tennis. The Prince falls in lovewith her beautiful spirit, and so beginsthe rest of her life.Japan has the world’s oldest hereditarymonarchy, and Haruko’s life ischoked with thousands of years’ worthof accrued ceremony: the 15 kilogramsof traditional clothing Haruko wears onher...
...weekend in the Ivy League. After clinching a share of the Ancient Eight championship last Friday at Brown, Harvard couldn’t close the deal and take the title outright, dropping a 64-58 loss at Yale en route to a three-way share of the Ivy crown with Dartmouth and Cornell. The league could not use a tiebreaker to name its representative to the NCAA tourney—the three teams each split two games with each other—so Plan B, a two-game, three-team playoff begins tomorrow night in New York. The Crimson will...
...Harvard men’s golf team tied for second at the Fairfield Spring Invitational in an early start to the spring season. After travelling to Myrtle Beach, S.C. to play at Crown Park, the team watched round one be washed out by torrential conditions. High scores in the round that was played stand as a testament to the challenging conditions. Collectively, the team shot 322, finishing just nine shots back of first place Lewis University in a field of 11 schools. The Crimson was tied with Fairfield University for second place. Junior Michael Shore paced the team with...