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...other clubs]. What’s riding on this is respect and knowing we can beat some good teams in the league.” For the Crimson to earn a spot in the Ancient Eight title game, the Bulldogs must take at least three from the Big Green this weekend and the Bears must sweep Yale next week. Harvard must also win its eight remaining contests. “We go into every weekend and every game thinking we should win every time,” senior Shawn Haviland said. “Our backs are against the wall...
Despite its lime-green background, “A Taste of Power: 18th Century German Porcelain for the Table” is easy to miss at first among the many other works of art currently on view at the Busch-Reisinger Museum. The exhibition, which runs through June 30, is surprisingly small, consisting of four cases housing a total of only five porcelain figurines. However, what the pieces lack in size, they make up for in beauty. Each precious inch of the figurines is carefully painted and lined with a surprising amount of detail. Their life-like, agile representations...
...Harvard women’s lacrosse team fell to Dartmouth, 11-7, yesterday at Harvard Stadium. The game marked the fifth straight loss for the Crimson (7-6) and returned the Big Green (6-6) to .500. Harvard’s string of defeats began on March 29th with a loss to Yale, 13-10. Since then, the Crimson has been unable to reclaim the success that it had earlier in the season when its record boasted seven wins and only one loss. “We have had a tough streak in our schedule but they have all been...
...fictional), but that the characters’ thoughts are so relentlessly foregrounded that the rest of the work cowers behind them, reduced to obscurity by the intellectual blizzard. Gessen at times nails the details, as when he describes the standard Harvard lunch: “a huge bowl of green peas...a chicken parm sandwich, and...a cranberry-grapefruit mixture, which I’d patented.” But these glimpses of a fully realized literary world are all too often overshadowed by his characters’ ideational monologues. “Literary Men?...
...astonishingly heavy and moist for the summer. She heard, as if from a piano, note by melodious note, the birds that nested in the lone apple tree that leaned over the shed; saw as if through a magnifying glass the leaves of grass which were still the pale green of newborn shoots. She inhaled quickly and deeply as she noticed a gardener sleeping beneath a distant tree.“Perhaps I shall kill him as well,” she thought, “if I am not too tired out after disemboweling Frederick with a gardening tool...