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...down,” Powers said. “I placed between first and 10th, and I think Roberta placed between first and 12th.”Junior skipper Megan Watson and freshman crew Meghan Wareham anchored the A-division, earning 96 points to place 10th. Rhode Island (113 points), Yale (118 points), Navy (133 points), Stanford (147 points), and MIT (150 points) all finished ahead of Harvard.CENTRAL SERIES THREEThe co-eds competed in Boston College’s Central Series Three this weekend. The meet attracted 10 teams for 10 races on Dorchester Bay.The host Eagles dominated the event...
...inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa," since "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas testing says not really." Watson also told Hunt-Grubbe, who lived and worked with him as a lab assistant in Long Island a decade ago, that even though he would hope all people are equal in intellectual capacity, "people who have to deal with black employees find this not true...
...noon on Friday, a beleaguered Watson had canceled his remaining engagements and was flying back to the U.S. "His decision to leave the country, I believe, was due to things going on at Cold Springs Harbor," says his publicist Kate Farquhar-Thomson, referring to the Long Island lab where Watson is chancellor. Though Farquhar-Thomson declined to speculate what those "things going on" might be, odds are they include the lab board's decision yesterday to suspend Watson's administrative responsibilities...
...killed to inherit the stuffed bird, the one which would eventually inspire Harvard’s fake.A WORLDLY BIRDThe beginnings of the faux dodo are older than the University itself.According to Lecturer on Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Andrew Berry, Portuguese and Dutch traders colonized the species’ home island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean starting in 1598.The first extant report of a dodo was penned by an English diplomat named Thomas Herbert who sailed to Mauritius in 1629.Five years later, Herbert recounted, “Here only is generated the Dodo, which for shape and rareness may antagonise...
...Lampoon were a political party, its platform would be “cut and run.” Police arrested a fleeing Lampoon editor on Sunday morning after he allegedly attempted to cut down newly planted trees on the Mt. Auburn Street island outside the Lampoon Castle. A Harvard University police officer saw James A. Powers Jr. ’08—an editor of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine—in the process of cutting down trees at about...