Word: haps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then adds the little bit extra, the pithy advice that makes us do well." The personality of the man, as well as the counsel of the coach, is the crucial factor. Howard Johnson '81 remarks, "He's inspiring because he's such a stable Rock-of Gibraltar person." Hap Porter '79 sums up the crew's relationship with the coach: I trust him--totally. It's easy to have a winner teach you how to be a winner...
...hell on the starting line," grimaces Doug Wood, "The idea of the agony you're going to go through for six minutes is enough to make you quit. And there's always the extra pressure of a Harvard tradition of winning, and your own getting used to winning." Hap Porter adds, "I resign myself. There's an immense amount of controlled energy about to be released--but also immense room for error...
Second Varsity Eights--1. Harvard (bow, Bob Wiley, 2. Tim McGee, 3. Marshall Moore, 4. Richard Porteus, 5. Gus Stuart, 6. Jim Kenary, 7. Hap Porter, stroke, Doug Wood, coxswain Chris Boit), 6:08.4; 2. Penn, 6:14.1; 3. Navy...
...Hap Porter...
...description of the current mood as a return to romance, if only because America's essentially romantic character has never really been in abeyance. Even in a basically romantic country, however, romanticism has its highs and its lows, and right now it is flying high. Besides, what hap pier condition can visit a land whose national ideals and myths are known as the American Dream? Ah, perhaps that is it, the exact word to describe the new sentimental journey on which the U.S. appears to have embarked: dream. Americans have finally begun to dream again-and high time...