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...field--club or no club--the rugby team became one of Harvard's finest squads of the year. The season that started with a disappointing loss in the New England Championships in the fall ended seven months later with the only national crown won by a Harvard team this year...
...Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, Corporation cohort Calkins says. "He's the world's finest fundraiser. When you talk about the sheik of somewhere who might have an interest [in giving money to Harvard], his eyes light up and he's off to the airport." Calkins also credits him with being able to tell people point-blank that they aren't offering enough money...
...know about you but the satisfaction which I, as a spectator, derive from the Olympics does not evolve solely from watching Carl Lewis run faster than Ivan Gregoriovich. Yes, I enjoy witnessing the finest athletes in the world striving to beat one another. And, yes, I can empathize with them when that opportunity is destroyed, because their governments use them as political lever age. And upon first instinct, I too, condemn the politicization of the Olympics...
...inescapable conclusion is that the Olympics themselves are the problem. The world championships in all the different sports, held in non Olympic years do not suffer from all these maladies they proceed smoothly and non-politically to determine which athletes are the world's finest. The Olympics, which were admirably designed to allow athletes to transcend the petty problems of nationalism, have now irrevocably and unfortunately become the victim of the system that they were designed to rise above...
While the Minutemen will look to Moryl, the Crimson will count on Hart to do the damage. The Crimson's senior captain scored four goals in the 7-4 Harvard win earlier this year and has emerged as one of Harvard's all-time finest players...