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...volleyball team met with mixed success at this weekend’s Golden Dome Classic in Newark, N.J.After sweeping Rutgers-Newark (4-8, 2-2 Hay) for the second time this season, 3-0, the Crimson (4-3, 3-1 Hay) couldn’t overcome non-conference opponent Mount Olive (8-4) in the teams’ first meeting, surrendering a hard-fought loss, 1-3.Despite the loss to the Trojans, Harvard finds itself in a solid position for an EIVA playoff run. The Crimson’s victory against Rutgers puts Harvard in second place in the Hay Division...
...university health services at Princeton: "Although some freshmen boys arrive here asking, 'Where's the party? Where's the orgy?,' students today are more monogamous. There's not a lot of promiscuity. This is substantiated by the fact that we see very little gonorrhea and no syphilis." At Mount Holyoke, Senior Jennifer Shaw observes: "The trend for women is not to sleep with men they meet at parties." The one-night stand is as potentially entangling for men as in prerevolutionary days. "The women who have one-night stands are really looking for further commitment," she says. Nancy Boltz...
...Greetings, which owns a $1.8 billion piece of the "social expression" industry, "is often a child's first experience with greeting cards." A billion cards are sent every year, second only to Christmastime, and 85% of them by women. For this we can thank Esther Howland, an entrepreneurial 1847 Mount Holyoke grad, whose father owned a stationery store and who came up with the idea of mass-producing valentines. The Mother of the Valentine never married but did get very rich, racking up annual sales equivalent to more than $2 million today...
...plenty of chances and didn’t generate enough shots. When we did get shots, though, their goalie got stronger as the game went on and made some big saves in the third.”Those missed opportunities to mount a comeback would present themselves again in the third period as the Crimson struggled to overcome a 4-1 deficit. Though Harvard out-shot Brown 17-3 in the closing period and 34-20 in the game, the Bears’ defense managed to clear the puck quickly and pressured the Crimson into taking hurried shots.Brown...
This weekend’s UVM carnival came after an intersession training trip to New Hampshire. The alpine team trained throughout the week in Mount Washington Valley while the Nordic team prepared for its races at Jackson...