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...system in which the visiting team decides which points system will be used— this year, Oxford and Cambridge chose the “winner-takes-all” system, where only one point is given to the winning team per event, and the Harvard/Yale women trumped their English counterparts 12-7 while the American men fell to Oxford and Cambridge, 10-9. Overall, the combined men and women’s team outscored the British teams, 21-17, to claim the coveted Naughton Trophy once again. The Harvard/Yale-Oxford/Cambridge meet is the world’s oldest continuing international...
...activities, and the web site says activities could include visiting the country’s largest hydroelectric dam or oil exploration and extraction sites. And don't worry if you spent too much time taking Bioengineering to dabble in Portuguese—all the activities will take place in English. Just think about how wonderful it would be to escape the Cambridge winter for 2 weeks in sunny Brazil...though it might not be worth spending the other 8.5 months of the school year slaving away as an engineering concentrator...
...Mather House resident tutor Joseph S. Ronayne ’92 said.He added that the reality of Harvard residential life diverges from this expectation.THROUGH THE AGESBut the goal of the original Oxford and Cambridge SCRs was not to create familial rapports. Diverging from its more formal and stilted English counterpart, the Harvard SCR model was designed to foster casual interaction between faculty and students. “In England, the professors just sit and stare down at undergraduates. They’re probably only worried about the quality of their wine cellars,” Mayman said. In establishing...
...which is that he told the truth," Hernandez tells TIME. "We share in a common sense of optimism about the truth coming out in the end." (Hernandez won't say why Posada claims he didn't lie to immigration officials; Posada in the past has suggested that his flawed English led to a misunderstanding in the Times interview.) (See the top 10 news stories...
...Alexandra A. Petri ’10 is an English and classics concentrator in Eliot House. Her column appears on alternate Fridays...