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Harvard track and field sent five student-athletes down to Florida State University’s Mike Long Track on Friday and Saturday for the 2008 NCAA East Regional Championships. Junior high jumper Becky Christensen highlighted the Crimson effort, clearing an outdoor season-best 1.81 meters—she tied her career-best jump of 1.83 meters at the indoor NCAA Championships in March—en route to a fourth-place finish and an automatic qualifier for the NCAA Championships on June 11-14 in Des Moines, Iowa. Saturday’s jump came on her third attempt...
...peddling their idea. (Or as Jeffrey Miron, the director of undergraduate studies for economics, put it, “the system is self-motivated and decentralized—like much in economics.”) For those without pre-existing relationships with professors (most small classes are taken during junior and senior years, especially in large departments), the prospect of finding an adviser can be especially daunting...
With only three juniors and no seniors on this season’s roster, the No. 4 Harvard men’s squash team knew like it was in for an uphill battle. Despite the squad’s youth, the Crimson managed to finish third in the Ivy League behind Princeton, who went 6-0 in conference play, and Yale. “I thought it was a fantastic season,” junior captain Verdi DiSesa said. “We worked hard and played well even though we were hurt by losing last year?...
...Crimson came out of that spell in Cinderella-like fashion, embarking on a winning streak through February and March that took the team all the way to the ECAC finals, where it fell to Princeton. “We definitely had our ups and downs,” junior forward Jimmy Fraser said. “We started off really well, [but] come the end of December and then exam time, we kind of hit a wall. We were able to pull it together by the end [of the season], but unfortunately we just couldn’t pull through...
...slide, in which the Crimson fell to two Ivy opponents and crosstown rivals Boston College and Boston University, the team’s 1-0 overtime loss at home to the No. 20 Princeton Tigers ended Harvard’s championship quest. Despite a relentless defensive effort in which junior goalkeeper Kylie Stone stopped nine shots, the Tigers found a way to convert off a penalty corner to end the game. The 2007 season featured a competitive Ivy League that saw four teams, including the Crimson, entering the last weekend of the schedule in a tie for second place...