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By their graduation, the class of 1984 left Harvard struggling with what seemed to be a growing problem: year after year, more women at the University were reporting incidents of sexual harassment.Just months after the administration drafted a new policy that outlined procedures for reporting incidents of sexual misconduct, the...
When Douglas was in high school, Harvard coach Joe Walsh had no intentions of making a hard recruiting push for the South River, N.J. native. But Mike Garlatti, an old acquaintance of Walsh’s and a scout for the Colorado Rockies, had coached Douglas on a fall-season...
“[Garlatti] had said to me, ‘Joe, if you take [Douglas] and he doesn’t play right away, he’s going to make everyone in front of him work harder,’” Walsh said. ?...
After four years, Walsh’s investment in Douglas has paid off, and the graduating captain has found that elusive consistency, on and off the field.
In sports, it is often difficult to measure progress, especially when numbers fail to provide much insight. For the Harvard baseball team, which went 10-30 last year with an 8-12 Ivy League record, this season did not present much of a contrast statistically, but consistent observers of the...