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Thirty million dollars can buy a Van Gogh, a private island, or—self-proclaimed antiques representative Paul T. Marino hopes—a pair of black walnut trophy oars. Harvard’s crew team scored the oars in 1852 after beating Yale in the first athletic competition between the two schools, reports the Los Angeles Times. But it wasn’t just the precursor to a greater rivalry; amazingly, the Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H. race was the first intercollegiate sporting competition in the United States. The oars came into the possession of the Marino family...
General Douglas MacArthur—hoping to drive a hole in Japan’s southeastern flank—landed his forces at Leyte Island in the Philippines on Oct. 20, 1944, a date which he declared “A-Day” (Dwight Eisenhower had already laid claim to the “D”). The A-Day invaders overran Japan’s first line of defenses in less than 24 hours. But then the Japanese moved the fight to the ocean—and there Thomas’ naval narrative sets sail...
Vanderhoops grew up in Everett, north of Boston, but he belongs to the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head on Martha’s Vineyard. He described how, as a child, he longed for life on his tribe’s island...
...Ogunnaike will use his fellowship to study music in the West African country of Mali. He has been playing the djembe drum since his freshman year and, last year, helped start the Harvard College Pan-African Dance Ensemble. Riley said she intends to travel to Seychelles, an island chain in the Indian Ocean off the coast of east Africa, to work with an NGO on conservation and biodiversity through a local school. The school is one of the first in Seychelles for students with disabilities and will offer Riley the opportunity to work on issues relevant to her senior thesis...
...Long Island was the fourth straight for Harvard, with the last three coming on the road...