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...this point, the Crimson was 3-6 and things looked bleak. But Harvard beat Yale, 1-0, in its next game, and after losing to B.C. and Princeton upset No. 8 Northeastern--the latter three all teams that went to the 12-team NCAA Tournament...
...true that a lot more of them are not. Even the best possible education is only a precursor to all that follows; just because one person attends Harvard and another attends Podunk U. doesn't mean that the former will necessarily contribute more to society than the latter...
...after that, the crews' paths began to diverge. The novices swept Northeastern and MIT on April 1, beginning a combined 12-0 dual met winning streak for the two boats. The lights, meanwhile, started their own four-meet unbeaten streak with a destruction of B.C. and Amherst--beating the latter by a minute...
...Cassuto of Fordham University's English department deconstructed Ruth and "the politics of greatness." "Is baseball's canon-making procedure subjective?" Cassuto wondered. "Or does the statistically measurable quality of baseball make it possible to prove or measure Ruth's greatness?" Not surprisingly, there were many adherents to the latter proposition. William Jenkinson, a self-described investigative historian, attempted to quantify Ruth's home-run prowess, dropping such impressive phrases as "drag coefficient" and "fast-twitch muscle fiber." A more direct analysis was offered by Ray Hayworth, a Detroit Tigers catcher during Ruth's era who had the advantage...
...near epic example of the latter is The Dream of the Knight, by the Madrid painter Antonio de Pereda (1611-78). The young Don sleeps, and an angel appears in his dream with a scroll bearing a diagram of death's arrow with the motto, "It pierces eternally, flies quickly and kills." Before the two figures is a tumbled mass of emblems of the world: armor and a wheel-lock gun (military glory), a bishop's miter and a papal tiara (religious authority), a laurel wreath (cultural fame), money, jewels, playing cards, sheet music-and a mirror that reflects only...