Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Recent event have led students here at Harvard to re-evaluate student government. The Constitutional Convention arose to address the problem of ineffectiveness of the standing student-faculty committees in expressing student opinion on salient University issues...
...meet was not nearly over, however, as the Crimson almost pulled off the upset with some gutsy performances after that. Freshman Geoff Seelen provided some very key points, and qualified for his third event at the NCAAs by nailing down second place in the 200-yd. backstroke...
...Harvard suffered a critical and perhaps ultimately fatal, setback in the second event, the 100-yd. freestyle. In the afternoon's trials, Mack had gone 46.06 to qualify first, while Cooper qualified second. Unfortunately, the starter fired a quick starting gun while people were still moving on the blocks in the finals, and Mack and Cooper never really recovered. Cooper took fourth and Mack sixth, while Princeton's O'Hara and Fine finished second and fifth, respectively. LaSalle's Tom McKeon won the race...
Harvard received a big break in the next event, the 200-yd. breaststroke. Princeton's outstanding freshman John Christensen, favored to win the event, fell ill during the trials and did not even qualify...
...first of these, the 200-yd. butterfly, Princeton placed four men in the top 12 to pick up 28 points. The event was not as disastrous for Harvard as it could have been, however, as Yale's muscular Mark DeVore overtook the Tigers' defending champion Bill Specht in the last 50 yards to rob the leaders of three points. Harvard's Dan Menichella provided a small boost by finishing 11th...