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...hope heading into the weekend, the young members of the track and field team proved they will be important catalysts for Harvard’s overall success this season by competing near the top at the Husky Winter Carnival at Boston University’s Reggie Lewis Center on Saturday.“It was a good meet,” Crimson coach Jason Saretsky said. “A great start, and it was great to see the freshman get out those jitters in their first time in the Crimson singlet.”The freshman foursome of Lauren...
...brutal schedule, the Crimson sent eight competitors to the annual tournament, which features some of the nation’s best talent in the Las Vegas Convention Center.Junior Andrew Knapp, sophomore Michael Sadler, and rookies Bryan Panzano, Walter Peppelman, and Sean Murphy rounded out the Harvard lineup against a field that included nine teams in the top 25 and five of the top 10.The Crimson posted an 11th-place finish in the 44-team tournament. With an incomplete roster, Harvard looked to focus on the experience gained from facing such talented competition.“This...
...glass, as it fell to Providence (4-4), 70-58, on Saturday afternoon.After a sharp-shooting night of nearly 60 percent against the University of New Hampshire its last time out, the Crimson shot almost half that mark, connecting on fewer than 35 percent of its shots from the field for the game. “Sometimes you just have a bad night as a team, shooting-wise,” said captain Niki Finelli, who was one of three Harvard players that scored in double figures. “Sometimes it’s out of your control whether...
...solid eighth. GEORGIA INVITATIONAL The Harvard men’s swim team traveled south this past weekend, capturing a strong second-place finish in the Georgia Invitational. Harvard completed the three-day contest with a total of 688 points, falling only to the dominant home Bulldogs, who led the field with a score of 1407. The meet, which was held in a champion style and therefore consisted of both preliminary and final trials, proved to be a bit of a wake-up call for the Crimson swimmers. Performing significantly worse than usual in its early rounds, the team?...
...Scifipedia, an online biographical dictionary, defines Ackerman first as "American fan." That's good enough. As much as almost any writer in the field, he created a devoted, informed audience for speculative fiction. If he didn't coin the term "sci-fi" - Robert Heinlein used it first - then by using the phrase in public in 1954 he instantly popularized it (to the lasting chagrin of purists, who preferred "SF"). Forry, as everyone called him, was the genre's foremost advocate, missionary and ballyhooer. His love for the form, stretching back more than 80 years, godfathered and legitimized the obsessions...