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...Harvard sailing team found itself extremely busy this past weekend, participating in five regattas around the New England area. The coed team was stretched thin, as they competed in four regattas, including the top-level Danmark Trophy. The team finished in the middle of the pack, placing ninth out of 20 in a very competitive race. Overall, the Crimson fared the best in the Smith Trophy, placing third, only ten points behind defending national champion Boston College.Meanwhile, the women’s team struggled on the Charles, finishing 11th out of 20 in the Regis Bowl at Boston University. SMITH...
...buzz of activity, though they are not completely aesthetic. Hartman explains that most energy consumption in buildings is a result of having artificial lights on during daylight, and that glass helps to combat this excess. “When most students experience a campus in New England, often much of the day the sun is down, or low. Our intent was to make the building like a lantern—glowing during the night.” Night or day, the Northwest Science Building promises to be a bright spot in the Harvard architectural landscape.—Crimson staff...
...much about Bradman as Fingleton, a gritty opening batsman who played 18 Tests for Australia in the 1930s and later penned several of cricket's most acclaimed books, including Brightly Fades The Don, a stylish account of Bradman's final appearances for Australia on the 1948 "Invincibles" tour of England...
...with Bradman the cricketer - quite a feat considering The Don's record, which marks him as easily the best ever. Fingleton claimed that in a lead-up match to the Bodyline series of 1932-33, Bradman, suspecting he was to be the target of short-pitched bowling from England's fast men, beseeched the rookie Fingleton to shelter him when the pair were batting together. "These blighters are after me," Bradman is alleged to have said. "They intend to bowl at my head. Will you take [Gubby] Allen for me?" Bradman always denied saying any such thing, but Fingleton would...
...Fingleton felt that Bradman used his influence to have the opener miss a tour of England, and other episodes, much debated, cemented his belief that Bradman was inclined to betray team-mates and cover his tracks. Were these grievances playing on Fingleton when he wrote The Immortal Victor Trumper, a biography of his cricketing hero? He could wait no longer than its second paragraph to proclaim: "To me, Trumper remains the greatest batsman who ever lived. Bradman could be rightly advanced against him, but whereas Bradman ... operated upon bowlers like a butcher at the abattoirs ... Trumper was like a surgeon...