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...right symbol to be recognized,” Edelman said afterwards. Coles, whom Razon called one of PBHA’s most famous alumni, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for his book “Children of Crisis” and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998. Francis S. Assaf ’08, vice president of PBHA, recognized Coles’ importance as a professor and beyond. “His course on social change really impacted the University,” Assaf said. “He embodied so much about thinking about society...
...landed back where it belonged—on the river in June, back in the NCAA Championships. And this year, the team expects even more.“Last year, we were in the Petite [Final], so now, we want to put ourselves in a position to win a medal,” junior co-captain Liz Demers says, referring to the Black and White’s 11th-place effort at the NCAAs. “The next step is to get ourselves to the Grand Finals.”The crew is poised, but it is also young...
...pounds and are flung with ease into the icy depths of Lake Quinsigamond. But coxswains won’t complain about that. Their job is endlessly stressful and rife, perhaps, with misplaced blame, but a sopping wet and shivering coxswain is apt to be a happy one.Why? Only gold medal-winning coxswains are rewarded with ceremonious flops into the waters of the race course. The tradition of collegiate rowing calls for it: after winning a championship race, oarsmen team up to victoriously fling their coxswain off the winner’s dock and into the waters below...
...crew’s time of 7:07.7 in the Grand Finals at Eastern Sprints earned the novice eight a gold medal and proved the fastest time of any Radcliffe boat on the river that...
There’s something mathematical about the Harvard varsity lightweights this season, something yet more quantifiable than the racing times measured out to hundredths of a second that deny some crews gold medals and give others first place. The Crimson, which fell to Cornell by 0.08 seconds in the 2006 IRA final, knows all too well the minute quantitative differences that separate first, second, and even third place in lightweight varsity racing.This year’s statistic relates not to seconds shaved or seats won, but to personnel.The number? Three.That’s the number of Harvard seniors...