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...marked the centennial anyway. Just for the day, I got out my Crimson medal and propped it against the typewriter. Draped my Crimson tie over the hanging lamp and taped my Crimson "Press" sign to the wall...

Author: By Joan MCPARTLIN Mahoney, | Title: First 'Cliffe Correspondent Remembers Pioneering at All-Male Harvard Crimson | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...latest issue features "Supreme Court Basketball" in which cases are retold in play-by-play with (basketball) court diagrams, and "Fire: The Next Sharp Stick?" which chronicles a Neanderthal board meeting. Instead of advertisements, McSweeney's offers its tongue-in-cheek "marketplace" of mail-order items: "#89, Used Lamp Bought at the Salvation Army Outlet and Hand-Delivered to Your Home on a Sunday Afternoon When it's Raining ($55.00)," and "#14, Pages Torn from an Annotated 1904 Bible ($2.95)" seem particularly appealing...

Author: By D. M. Rosenblatt, | Title: McSWEENEY'S HITS THE STANDS | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...took control of the puck in the after the first 10 minutes and claimed the lead with two power-play goals of its own. Senior defenseman Nicki Luongo found the back of the net on a slapshot at 9:57 of the first and Heitzman lit the lamp four minutes later...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: W. Hockey Beats UNH in OT For Championship | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...Sept. 7, 1927, Farnsworth painted a square of glass black and scratched a straight line on the center. In another room, Pem's brother, Cliff Gardner, dropped the slide between the Image Dissector (the camera tube that Farnsworth had invented earlier that year) and a hot, bright, carbon arc lamp. Farnsworth, Pem and one of the investors, George Everson, watched the receiver. They saw the straight-line image and then, as Cliff turned the slide 90[degrees], they saw it move--which is to say they saw the first all-electronic television picture ever transmitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electrical Engineer PHILO FARNSWORTH | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...this season, Harvard's shortest skater is second only to the 5'11 Mleczko among the nation's leading scorers. Shewchuk admits that her official height of 5'4 is "generous," but she makes up for her lack of size with her quickness and her ability to light the lamp at a frightening pace...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shoot Early, Shoot Often: Shewchuk Leaves Her Mark | 3/26/1999 | See Source »

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