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...hitting home runs without doing anything else positive as a hitter." It was my favorite award despite the fact I was a huge Dave Kingman fan growing up. He was a famously prickly guy - has he sent you any angry letters or anything for naming this award in his honor. Or more like his dishonor...
...executive director of the Ivy League athletic conference, Orleans was not merely well meaning in his wariness of the potential encroachment of athletics into university priorities—most notably his opposition to participation in the national football postseason—but he was also right. In order to honor Orleans’s legacy, University President Drew G. Faust and the committee charged with finding his successor should choose a director who believes just as strongly in the unequivocal precedence of education over athletics. As Faust’s predecessor Derek C. Bok told the New York Times...
...well as a bid for the NCAA Championships in two weeks.“It’s nice to have that title,” Stanton said of Christensen’s first-place finish. “It was also nice that they gave an award in honor of our coach who passed away last year, Paul Turner.”Former Harvard track and field coach Frank Haggerty was on hand to award Christensen the first Paul Turner High Jump Award. In the field events that took place primarily on Saturday, the Harvard squad had a tough...
...COIN A MOTTOAnother common caller to the Classics department is the U.S. military—specifically, subdivisions of the Air Force.But when the Air Force Academy enlisted Schafer’s help for a motto requiring Latin translations of “leadership” and “honor,” he recalled running into some difficulty. Both words proved nearly impossible to translate. “There’s really no comfortable way to put that in Latin,” Schafer said, referring to the word “leadership.”Schafer...
...underground. Sellars’ once revolutionary use of the Adams pool doesn’t seem so novel anymore. It’s now an established venue, like the Loeb or Agassiz.Yet for students like Jacoby, much of this is irrelevant.“Whatever an indie badge-of-honor is, I don’t think the Press is much interested in keeping it,” Jacoby says. “We’re just happy when people are down there learning and printing. That’s really all there...