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...Crimson's 9-8 win over Holy Cross last Wednesday, Lentz stepped to the plate with the bases loaded, two outs and Harvard trailing 8-6. Cool as ever, Lentz-who had already hit a homer in the game-calmly stroked a two-run single to tie the game...
...senior struck out eight in five innings, allowing only one run. She also helped her own cause in the bottom of the second with a two-run homer to left that keyed a three run inning off of Big Red starter Sarah Sterman. The Crimson got another run across the plate when shortstop Sarah Goldberg's double brought Watanabe home from second later in the inning...
Harvard's 14 hits against the Crusaders on Wednesday was a season-high. More importantly, though, Harvard bounced back even when one Holy Cross homer after another appeared to put the game away...
That should not be a worry with a certain third baseman powering the Crimson order. Fittingly, it was Carter's homer that started off Harvard's comeback rally on Wednesday. As the Crimson now gears up for the most important part of its season this weekend, Carter may well have jumpstarted the Harvard offense at exactly the right time...
...Robert Graves’ classic The White Goddess and the mythology-blender of Joseph Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces. The Calasso of Literature and the Gods is a little closer to Goddess than Hero, as he attempts to trace through all of Western literature, from Homer to Nabokov, a phenomenon that he defines called “absolute literature.” Absolute literature is literature inspired by some sort of force of divinity; or at least that’s my best guess. Calasso never seems to feel obligated to explain much about...