Word: keeper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brilliant American icon gets overtaken from time to time by his own apparent incoherence, his strangeness. He kept minutely detailed account books, for example--he was an obsessive record keeper who made daily notes on everything from barometric readings to the progress of 29 varieties of vegetables at Monticello--yet he somehow lost track of his debts and died bankrupt. The historian Paul Johnson has catalogued a few of the inconsistencies: Jefferson was an elitist who complained bitterly of elites; a humorless man whose favorite books were Don Quixote and Tristram Shandy; a soft-spoken intellectual sometimes given to violent...
...keeper of the institutional memory," Akins says...
Replacing 6'0 senior All-Ivy keeper Anne Browning, who chose not to play this season, was a tall order. But at 5'10, Gunther also intimidated opposing players like few others have in Harvard women's soccer history...
...Coach [John] Kerr said before the game that the team had to go out and get the win for the seniors, because they had given so much to the program," sophomore keeper Mike Meagher said. "It was great they could go out and produce the win and leave on a high note...
...first goal came when sophomore goalie Dan Mejias saved one shot from midfielder Michael McElwan, but could not grab a rebound shot by Quaker midfielder Nathan Kennedy. Mejias started the first game of his Harvard career after the Crimson's usual starting keeper, Meagher, suffered a concussion in a mid-week practice...