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...Four points in any weekend is great, but especially having gone through what we have been through, I think its especially important,” Donato said. “We really have our eyes focused on getting home ice in the first round...
...Home ice will be especially important for the Crimson. This season, Harvard is 7-1-1 at home in ECAC play...
...narrowly by O’Donnell, with an 8-10, 10-8, 9-7, 9-3 victory over Christina Matthias of Penn that would send the Crimson to the finals. Snyder closed out her match moments later with a 10-8, 9-3, 4-9, 10-9 victory to ice the cake.Penn’s only victories of the day came in the top two flights, where the Quakers’ Kristen Lange and Sydney Scott swept No. 1 Guruge and No. 2 Tiong, respectively. HARVARD 8, STANFORD 1Harvard cruised past No. 7 Stanford, 8-1, Friday afternoon...
...Nagyvary believes this evidence upends the widespread belief among instrument makers that only the strongest wood can produce a lush, full sound. According to Nagyvary, the opposite is true. He also says it casts doubt on the working hypothesis of many scientists that Stradivari worked during Europe's "little ice age" of the 15th-17th centuries, in which low summer temperatures led to slow but uniform growth in the Spruce trees used for instruments, and that the wood's uniform density explains the instruments' high quality of sound. Last year, researchers in The Netherlands and the U.S. used medical imaging...
...problem with the Little Ice Age Theory," he says, "is that the same wood was available to French, German and other violin makers in Europe, but only instruments made in Cremona were any good. I believe that's because of the special, preservative varnish used there...