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While Harvard fans flocked to Bright Center over the weekend to watch the men's hockey team garner a spot in the ECAC play-offs, the women's swimming team travelled down to Princeton, N.J. with more important things on its mind...
...gambit played off. That weekend at Easterns, Harvard raced by 25 competitors to garner 558 points--31 more than Penn State and 85 more than the Tigers--to capture the Eastern Championship in what Harvard Coach Maura Costan-Scalise called "the sweetest victory" of her eight-year tenure...
...normally take two such seminars each. This year, 88 students wrote honors theses; 85 of those students will receive honors degrees. By one count, 70 percent of our courses have enrollments of 30 students or fewer. And as any reader of the CUE Guide knows, Government Department courses typically garner high ratings from students...
...Harvard men's tennis team may have lost its shot at an NCAA title, but the Crimson continues to garner top honors...
...vice presidency calls up its rueful folklore. "Cactus Jack" Garner of Texas, F.D.R.'s Vice President from 1933 to 1941, did not say the office was "not worth a pitcher of warm spit." He said it was "not worth a pitcher of warm piss." The line is almost always cleaned up for the civics class. No one has improved on Mr. Dooley's formulation: "Th' Prisidincy is th' highest office in th' gift iv th' people. Th' Vice-Prisidincy is th' next highest an' th' lowest. It isn't a crime exactly. Ye can't be sint to jail...