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There is no place like home.In its Ivy home opener Friday night, the women’s volleyball team extended its winning streak to six games, defeating Dartmouth 3-0. Freshman Anne Carroll Ingersoll and senior Kathryn McKinley led Harvard (7-7, 2-0 Ivy) to its second victory over the Big Green (4-8, 0-2) in just a week, 25-15, 25-12, 25-21.The road-weary Crimson welcomed the fan-filled, supportive home atmosphere.“It was so fun to play for friends and family,” McKinley said. “And it makes...
...that works together and runs a system so well, it helps you improve,” Tune said. “Right now everyone understands what we can do and everyone believes in themselves much more.”Although it might surprise some to point to a lopsided defeat as uplifting, the Crimson has confidence that it will continue to improve with half of the season under its belt.“Now that we’ve played together so much, we know what our roles are,” said Lee, who joined junior Egen Atkinson...
...three, squandering a 14-point fourth quarter lead. Although Holy Cross quarterback Dominic Randolph threw three picks, Yale needed two overtimes to pull out the 31-28 victory. After beating Harvard for the first time in eight years last weekend, Brown dropped the ball, succumbing to a 37-13 defeat at the hands of instate rival Rhode Island The rest of the league played out as expected, as Princeton topped Columbia in a close 27-24 contest, and Penn beat up on Ivy basement dweller Dartmouth, 23-10. —Staff writer Dixon McPhillips can be reached at fmcphill@fas.harvard.edu
...Though one of the goals of the simplified grading scheme was to reduce student anxiety, some students said that their peers would turn instead to extracurricular organizations in an effort to distinguish themselves. This, they said, would ultimately defeat the administration’s desire to allow students the time to enjoy the learning process...
...turned out, 25 of the 47 moderate but fiscally conservative Democrats, more worried about the economic crisis than the price tag of the rescue package, voted for the measure, which went down to defeat after two-thirds of House Republicans voted against it. And when the House takes up the latest compromise version of the bill that the Senate overwhelmingly passed on Wednesday, those same Blue Dogs will once again be the center of attention...