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...Facebook acknowledged yesterday on its blog post that it would be “rolling this out slowly going forward.” As of yesterday afternoon, the Harvard Facebook network was one of a handful of other Ivies with access to the service. Students at University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Cornell, Princeton, and Columbia said they did not have access to the service from former Harvard undergraduate and Facebook founder Mark E. Zuckerberg. But several Harvard students said they were generally unimpressed with the new feature. “I don’t like...
...Harvard leads the all-time series against the Quakers, 18-17. Harvard is coming off of a difficult stretch of six games in 18 days, two against nationally ranked opponents. The Crimson will face two more ranked teams in league play this year, No. 2 Princeton and No. 20 Dartmouth, taking on the former at Harvard Stadium next Saturday at noon. The contest will be the first game of a doubleheader, with the men’s team taking the field to finish...
Like Harvard, which announced a record low admissions rate of 7.1 percent on Monday, other prestigious colleges saw more competitive admissions processes this year than in the past. Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Stanford, and Yale were among the schools that had their lowest admit rate on record this year. Yale admitted 1,892 of its 22,813 applicants—a rate of 8.3 percent, down from 9.5 percent for the class of 2011. Columbia College admitted 8.7 percent, Stanford University 9.5 percent, and Dartmouth College 13.2 percent. The change was not confined to Ivy League schools and Stanford. Other...
...latter often goes hand-in-hand with cutting off other medications or removing a patient's feeding tubes. On its face, this may sound to many people as automatically hastening a patient's death. But that's not the case, says Dr. Ira Byock, chair of palliative medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, who has performed terminal sedation for his patients. "This is a practice, when used correctly, that's only done in the final stages of life," Byock says. "At that point, nutrition or antibiotics can usually do nothing to prolong life." Indeed, Dutch researchers found that...
...odds stacked in its favor. While the game was played in a neutral location in Duluth, Minn., Harvard was the team with the No. 1 ranking, having cruised to a 32-1-0 season in which the team won the Beanpot, swept through the ECAC playoffs, and trounced Dartmouth, 5-1, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament...