Word: cups
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...mastership--"certainly Harvard's best job," he says--last spring. ("You can stay on past 66 as a professor but you have to retire as a master," he grouses. "It should be the other way around--the brain deteriorates before the body does.") But the story of the Agassiz Cup celebration still seems characteristic of him--both in content and in style, for a certain kind of sharp, logical humor as well as, perhaps, a certain cheerful indifference to happenings that would excite or upset or change the attitudes of many people. It's a style, arguably, that found expression...
...simplest, most straightforward level, the Agassiz Cup story is characteristic because it's about crew--the sport that in 1929 helped bring Smithies, a 22-year-old Australian law student, the great-grandson of the first Methodist minister in western Tasmania, a Rhodes Scholarship. Finding England "too structured for my taste," Smithies went on to discover "the fleshpots of the United States" with a Commonwealth Fellowship and a Model A Ford, earn a quick Harvard doctorate in economics, return to Australia briefly to work in its treasury department, then settle in the United States for good...
After Saturday, the team's plans for the future are still uncertain. While the men's heavyweights plan to go to Henley to compete for the Grand Challenge Cup, the women have no similar opportunity. Thus they may not compete as a team again this year, and instead rest to prepare for the tryouts for the national team, which will begin in July...
Close indeed, when the final tallies had been added up. Coach Higginson's men had won the Jope Cup (for the overall lightweight performance) for the eighth consecutive year, five of which have been sweeps...
...tradition means anything in the Sprints, the Crimson can boast of winning the overall title as symbolized by the Jope Cup for the past seven years And with the exception of Princeton's Cinderella in 1973 the varsity has brought home the laurels annually since 1968. Al: yet seems well...