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...campaign. With a strong youth movement and another year of experience with a new system, the Crimson can anticipate a successful turnaround in the fall. But it will have to accomplish its goals without the help of two program stalwarts. Assistant coaches Ellen Estes Lee and Rick Offsay will depart after two and eight years with the team, respectively, with four of Offsay’s coming as a player. Whereas Farrar credits Offsay with influencing two generations of Harvard water polo players, he also points to Lee’s experience as a two-time Olympian as a driving...
South American Way. Continental begins daily service from Houston to Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 1. Flights depart at 9:15 p.m. from Houston and arrive at 9:15 a.m. Rio time...
...Travel is celebrating 30 years of business, offering travelers a chance to score $30 round-trip tickets to London or Paris. The first 20 customers to visit their local STA Travel branch or call 800-360-9273 on Wednesday, May 20, can get a ticket to London or Paris, departing from New York City, Boston, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco or Seattle. As with any good deal, there are caveats: You must be under 26 or a currently enrolled student to qualify. A valid ISIC or IYTC identity card (for student travel) is required to purchase the ticket...
...years in the classroom, success has been relatively easy to define: Good work is, in theory, awarded with good grades; the higher the grade, the more consummately the student has achieved her task. Quantified through its positioning in an alphabetical hierarchy, academic success is seemingly straightforward. Yet, once we depart from the academic bubble, the only quantitative measure available to translate the abstract concept of success into an intelligible form is money. Rather than engaging in the overwhelming process of defining success on their own terms, a significant number of Harvard students have accepted the easy equation of post-graduation...
...professors just sit and stare down at undergraduates. They’re probably only worried about the quality of their wine cellars,” Mayman said. In establishing the current residential life system in the early twentieth century, University President Abbott L. Lowell, class of 1877, sought to depart from some of the English system’s shortcomings.To that end, he envisaged the SCR as a way to engender a more convivial and inter-generational academic environment in the Houses.At its inception, the House system integrated academic and social life—with professors living, teaching, and working...