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Harvard's first opportunity to showcase its abilities comes this weekend as the team kicks off its season at the All-American Tournament in Minnesota. The Crimson will face Minnesota, Augsburg and Gustavus during the four-day tournament...
...above 50 digits. They calculated that it would take the fastest computer, performing as many as a billion divisions a second, more than 100 million years to finish the task. Then, in the fall of 1982, a chance encounter closed the gap. During a scientific conference in Winnipeg, Canada, Gustavus Simmons, head of Sandia's applied-math department, was mulling the factoring problem over a few beers with another mathematician and an engineer from Cray Research, makers of the world's fastest computer. The engineer, Tony Warnock, pointed out that the internal workings of the Cray were especially...
...Gustavus H. Zimmerman III will serve as acting senior tutor at Adams House next spring, Whitlock added...
...academic life in England, he has contributed significantly to life in the House and in the University. Those of us who live and work with him have found him to be an excellent senior tutor--a finding that suggests that Master Kiely has exercised his prerogatives wisely. Romney Mosely Gustavus Zimmerman Joseph Kruzel, Assistant Senior Tutors The Adams House Committee and 16 residents of Adams House
Later, in 1959, when I went to Dartmouth College, it was a recapitulation of the same process of identification. The Ruskinian-Romanesque college chapel at Dartmouth had been built in the memory of an ancestor of mine, Daniel Gustavus Rollins. I had been reading the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine since the fourth grade, had attended football games played by my brother Phillip, had heard of my father's kicking a field goal which helped Dartmouth beat Princeton in 1929. With all of this lore behind me, I studied the freshman manual, learned all of the Dartmouth songs before I arrived...