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Harvard has typically succeeded in scheduling all the Northeast teams that might garner NCAA berths—like Boston College, Boston University, and Hartford, so most NCAA selection decisions can be based more on head-to-head results. URI’s contention for an at-large bid was unprecedented, so Harvard did not play the Rams. So unlike past years, Harvard’s NCAA fate wasn’t as well decided on the field...
Four-word answers are always safer than three here in Cambridge. “I’m an investment banker!” or “I’m a Ph.D. student!” will never garner the dead-sounding “Oh,” of “I make furniture!” as a post-graduate friend of mine does, or worse yet, “I’m a writer!” Recognized institutions are required in all answers. For some, an investment banking gig might...
Southern’s tenure at Harvard was often marred by conflict, which she wrote about in an essay, “A Pioneer: Black and Female,” published in the 1993 anthology Blacks at Harvard. Southern wrote of her efforts to garner respect both for herself and for the young department...
...into a pastime and tradition in Dunster, where a handful of word-lovers frequently gather together to make friends, make enemies and enhance their vocabularies. Legend has it that the game of anagrams was invented by those who yearned for a challenge greater than Scrabble, but it failed to garner the same popularity. It survives today wherever true enthusiasts feel compelled to pass the torch on to neo-nerds. Self-described “aging permutator” Daniel Bosch, an Expos preceptor and a former resident tutor of Dunster House, introduced the game to the House and soon found...
...allies to join us. While some parts of the document are encouraging, especially sections proposing to boost foreign aid and promote democracy, it will certainly fan fears of unilateral American intervention abroad. Instead of issuing provocative reports, the president’s top priority should be to garner the world’s support, not to strengthen Bush’s cowboy, go-it-alone image...