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...they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest. But the Tarahumara do two things that are different: they run as a group. Secondly, they alternate between bursts of effort and recovery. That's what's brilliant about their running - it's this really smart, strategic combination of fast and slow...
...company. In 1959, when the Cold War was at its pinnacle, and the relationship between the U.S. and the USSR was frigid at best, a team of 12 Soviet delegates came to Harvard as part of a month long tour of American northeastern colleges in an effort to foster greater cultural understanding.The group constituted one of two assembled on the basis of geographical area and professional interest. While one group toured universities in the Northeast, the other toured those in the Midwest.The 12 visitors—eight men and four women—arrived in Cambridge, where they surveyed...
...students were living in Harvard undergraduate housing above the number the dorms were built to accommodate. In response to the deepening housing shortage in 1957, President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 announced the start of ‘A Program for Harvard College,’ an effort that resulted in three additions to the undergraduate residential structure: Quincy House in 1959, Leverett Towers in 1960, and Mather House in 1970. To solve the problem of over-crowding, a central initiative of his administration, Pusey called for an active fundraising drive by the alumni to address the growing...
...wanted to acquire the MTA land in order to construct a $50 million apartment complex on the yards.BATTLING ‘BIG AL’Vellucci was a major opponent of the University’s land buying plans and supported Long’s effort to acquire the MTA land.“Big Al Velluci: he enjoyed pulling Harvard’s nose, and he was great at it,” said Frederick W. Byron ’59, who also reported on the Bennett Street Yard acquisition controversy for The Crimson.Vellucci went on to serve three...
...reverberated through radio receivers into the most distant halls of power, marking the beginning of the space race and sending U.S. policy makers scrambling to close the gap between the United States and Soviet Russia.Consequences of the Soviet launch would not, however, stay within Washington—the resulting effort to catch up to the Soviets would engage the nation and drag Harvard into an odd marriage of progressive initiatives and Cold War politics.The U.S. public and government perceived the Soviet victory in sending the first satellite into space as more than just a failure of its space agency...