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When officials from the Ivy League swore off athletic scholarships and proclaimed that student-athletes should be students first and foremost, they set up an ideal standard for intercollegiate athletic competition. Harvard's promotional literature reiterates this rhetoric, and the national press gushed about the geniuses in uniform who took the national hockey championship in 1989. Unfortunately, Harvard athletics fail to live to this ideal...
CHILDE HASSAM: AN ISLAND GARDEN REVISITED, National Museum of American Art, Washington. The islands are the Isles of Shoals, off the New Hampshire coast, and the garden was the notable cultivation of journalist-poet Celia Thaxter. Both are memorably captured here by Hassam (1859-1935), America's foremost impressionist. Through...
Nepotism is rife even in the armed forces. "Every commander has some link to the royal family," notes Anthony Cordesman, Washington's foremost expert on the Saudi military. "Loyalty to the House of Saud is the critical factor, not military proficiency." According to U.S. advisers, many of the princely pilots fly only when they want to. During scrambles early in the crisis, a discouraging proportion of them called in sick...
Both teams resume racing next Friday with a dual meet against Brown and Dartmouth at Bryant College. Dartmouth, a perennial favorite in the Ivy League, is foremost on the minds...
...father was born in Cambridge I was born in Cambridge. I remember Central Square when it was a family-oriented shopping center--the biggest in metro Boston," remembers Carl F. Barron, president of Putnam Furnature Leasing Company and one of the city's foremost business leaders...