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From that point forward, the Crimson cruised through the rest of its non-conference schedule, picking up wins over the likes of Boston College, George Washington, and Rice. Harvard’s only hiccups were a 16-point drubbing at Georgetown, a three-point defeat at Army, and a narrow six-point loss at UConn...
...started out with a couple of very narrow wins against competition we would normally [have] beaten,” West said. “But then we had some really good wins after that...
Students saw the breadth of the concentration as a distinct advantage. “It was great, broad, and it meant that I didn’t have to narrow myself,” Charles A. Stevenson ’63 said. Stevenson, a member of Wolff’s first tutorial, returned to co-teach Social Studies’ international relations junior tutorial from 1968 to 1970. “It kept more options open longer. My mind got stretched by my sophomore tutorial more than any other experience at Harvard...
...second lesson: Embrace risk—it is inescapable. You worry, I know, about the burden of Harvard, about “the pressure to be extraordinary” within a narrow definition of success, as one of you told me. “What will I say at my fifth reunion?” you wonder. What is “extraordinary enough”? It is, quite simply, having the courage to write your own script. You can be a risk taker. In fact, as we have learned, you will be a risk taker whatever you choose because...
...overall title would literally boil down to the final few races. In the end, the Tigers emerged victorious by a narrow margin of 27 points above Harvard’s 1,438. That same weekend, the Crimson suffered another close loss at the ECAC Championships in Pittsburgh, Pa., to first-place Marist...