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...mark of quality when it comes to textbooks, the assumption may not be as presumptuous as it sounds. The Soc Sci 11 textbook "East Asian Civilization," for example, co-authored by Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, Albert Craig, professor of Japanese History, and John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, was written for the course about 20 years ago when, as Reischauer says, "We were killing ourselves to teach two whole civilizations without a printed page to work from." Since that time, the two volume set has become the definitive and best-selling text in East Asian Studies, with...
Harvard crew coach John Higginson has a sign hanging over the door of his lightweight oarsmen's locker room which reads, "Please don't feed the oarsmen." The sign serves two purposes. First, it reminds the rowers to stay under the prohibitory 160 pound limit and second it keeps the crew sufficiently hungry from race to race that come each weekend the Crimson lights go out and feast on whatever unsuspecting boats come their...
Well, the grande bouffe for Higginson's hungry charges will be served up this Sunday on Lake Carnegie in Princeton, N.J., as a 12-crew course of oarsmen will be on hand for the annual running of the Eastern Sprints...
...Higginson's admonition has proven to be a winning recipe, as Harvard's varsity has walked away with the laurels seven of the last eight years and the lightweights have won the overall title, or the Jope Cup, for the last eight years...
...Harvard varsity lightweights avenged last year's man overboard loss to Navy as John Higginson's eight cruised home with its twelfth Haines Cup in 13 years, stroking through the Midshipmen and the UMass heavies on a fast, tailwind-aided Charles River on Saturday...