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...Winter at Harvard lasts from September to May, and it snows several feet a week,” I bragged to people on the streets. To my astonishment, some people didn’t even have an idea of how much a foot was! Instead, they told me about their strange “metric” system, one based on actual logic and good sense. It was simply bizarre. To make things worse, some of them didn’t even speak English! My facial hair was disgusted, and I stayed up many a night musing about...
When the Crimson opens against Vermont, it will play in a renovated home arena that can now rival the best courts in the nation—at least with regards to the floor beneath the players’ feet...
...going to throw from behind the pitcher’s rubber like it was the baseline in tennis, so I had to get him straightened out,” Hyde recalled. “I told him they’d probably have him throw from 45 feet or something. But Larry said, ‘No, if I’m going to do this, I’m going to do it from the full distance...
...years, I have been fascinated by the Civil War, Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the issues surrounding slavery. If your report had been available years ago, I could have saved the tuition for a couple of undergraduate and graduate courses as well as a few feet of Lincoln books in my library. Ah, but the fun is in the reading and discovering what Lincoln the man reveals to different scholars...
Items had been piled on desks and the floors were nearly empty, aside from large industrial fans positioned every few feet. Electric cabinets were open, and power wires and the tubes feeding hot air ran across the floor...