Word: hails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Football and religion have always gone hand-in-hand. Pregame prayers, "Hail Mary" passes, and "miraculous" comebacks are all hallowed rites. "Like religion, football is ritualized," says Father Michael F. Ford, chaplain at Holy Cross and former high school teacher for Harvard football standouts Bob Joyce and Brian Sullivan...
When unearthed in 1861 from a German quarry, Archaeopteryx seemed an ideal argument for the then new theories of evolution. Its reptilian brain and scaly head, combined with an avian wishbone and cloak of feathers, led many scientists to hail it as a missing link between reptiles and birds. But Protoavis has even more birdlike features than its younger cousin, Chatterjee believes. While both species have wishbones and forelimbs elongated into wings, he points out, the older fossil also has a bird's wide eye sockets, a large braincase and a breastbone designed to anchor muscles used in flight. Tiny...
...senior official describes the religious minority as a "few hundred" people who "cannot do any damage on a national scale." But others see it as a steadily rising influence, particularly in the universities. Few Egyptians can forget that it was a fundamentalist group that assassinated Sadat in a hail of bullets in October...
While you will probably encounter a plethora of people from all three, you will also find that many of your classmates hail from quite far-away climes and have interests that you may never have heard of. Admissions officers say that this year's class represents a wider range of interest than in previous years...
While both Colfax and Brumage hail from the country, Deepak Bhargava '89 is a city boy. Born in India, Bhargava moved to the New York when he was a year old. However, he still wants to find his Indian roots, and it was Harvard's Sanskrit and Indian Studies Department that convinced him to choose the Harvard over other Ivy Leaugue schools...