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This set the scene for the third race of the season at Lake Carnegie, N.J., against MIT and last year’s national champions, Princeton, for the Compton Cup. The Tigers, having lost many of their best oarsmen to graduation, were not much of a match this time around, as Princeton and MIT both succumbed to another clean sweep by the Crimson’s boats. The varsity race was tight at first, with Harvard lagging behind Princeton for much of the course. But the Crimson recovered to win by almost a length...
...past Fordham, 8-5, the team faced off against Brown in the second round. The rematch played out differently, as the Bears dashed Harvard’s championship hopes with a 9-4 victory. The men rebounded the next day to salvage a third-place finish over crosstown rival MIT. At Easterns, Ivy League foe Princeton squeaked by Harvard with a narrow 9-8 victory. In the second matchup, the Crimson succumbed again to Johns Hopkins, which walked away with a 11-7 victory in a tightly contested match. In the end, Harvard, after entering the tournament seeded seventh, finished...
...next week’s performance against Dartmouth and MIT was an almost exact turnaround of the results against the Big Red, with four boats taking top places in the morning’s races in Hanover...
...novice eight’s six victories was even close. A 17-second victory against the No. 2 Tigers, a 42-second rout of an embarrassed MIT crew, and a 14-second win over the Hoyas of Georgetown are just a few instances of its domination...
After graduating from college, Shleifer chose MIT for graduate school while DeLong remained at Harvard. Summers moved to Harvard the next year, and the three would soon after collaborate on a series of papers on “noise trading”—the buying and selling of stocks in the absence of new information that allows traders with information to make money...