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Philadelphia fans are, by necessity, a tough lot. As the home to the professional sports franchise with the most losses in history??the National League’s Philadelphia Phillies—Philadelphia has become accustomed to dealing with defeat. There has been a remarkable flow of teams who reached their final series only to fail spectacularly: the 1993 Phillies, the 1997 Philadelphia Flyers’ “Legion of Broom” swept by Detroit and the 2001 Sixers stand out as particularly glaring examples. In all of these instances, the city’s heart...
...widespread recognition, we have not yet realized Woodson’s vision for America if not all Americans embrace black history as their own history. It is not about having a tributary course or a month to pacify concerned Black Americans. It is not about justifying or proving black history??s importance. Rather, the goal is to restore the grains of truth within the hourglass of our time as our true history continues to struggle to justify its existence. Each of us holds the pen of today, and we have the power to right our history...
Surviving the Dartmouth home-and-home Ivy openers has been a skill that the Crimson has mastered in recent history??the Crimson has swept the Big Green in four out of the last five seasons and has taken 10 of the last 11 meetings between the two schools...
...town of 6,000 in northern Ohio, is best-known for its pseudonymous turn as Winesburg in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio. (The Clyde website notes that “America’s Famous Small Town” is both “rich in history?? and “home to America’s largest washing machine manufacturer...
...course, there are the artists. One can hardly imagine that Ralph Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821, T.S. Eliot ’10 and e.e. cummings ’15 got through their time here without at least a few drug indulgences themselves. Theatricals, too, have their own sordid history??especially the Hasty Pudding kind. Most will remember that a couple of years ago, two Pudding producers were charged with embezzlement of over $200,000 (they learned it from Enron, not Harvard, we swear), a large portion of which apparently went to support a producer?...