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...soccer game. It’s been 36 years since Title IX, and the frenzied enthusiasm of the fans demonstrated just how far women’s sports have come. “The crowd meant a lot; it meant a lot for women’s sports in general at Harvard,” Rhodes said. “To have that many people there, it was like a 12th player out there.” For the seniors, the win represented the culmination of four years of coaching switches, struggles on the field, and constant hard work. Through...
...momentum, as the team split with perennial basement-dweller Columbia in its Ivy opener. Though the Crimson bounced back with back-to-back doubleheader wins against Penn and Rhode Island the next week, the team struggled to maintain consistency as the regular season wore on. “In general, it’s great to see that we were able to beat every team in the league at least once,” Vertovez said. “This was the year of splits. It was clear that we could have taken both games from teams, but we weren?...
...foil, and Harmenberg, who finished 23rd. Although a far cry from a national championship, the Crimson made its way back to the highest echelon of American fencing this season, something that has been missing since 2006. “I’m really proud of the team in general,” Vloka said. “Everyone did a really amazing job.” Harvard will be put to the test next year after losing many key fencers to graduation, perhaps none more crucial than Cross. Still, with a few talented freshmen on its side, the Crimson...
That is the theory behind a new study by researchers from Harvard Medical School, Boston University and Massachusetts General Hospital and other institutions in which aging participants were asked to decide what kind of end-of-life care they would choose should they develop advanced dementia...
Perhaps more crucially, says the study's lead author Angelo Volandes of Massachusetts General Hospital, when participants were contacted six weeks later, only 6% of patients who saw the video had changed their preference for care, compared with 29% of those who did not see the video. People who saw the video also scored higher on health literacy tests, given by the researchers to judge knowledge of advanced dementia. "The results suggest that patients who watched the video had a better understanding of the disease and felt more secure in their decision. We felt those results were promising...