Word: northeasterners
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Today’s announcement—that Northeastern University is discontinuing its intercollegiate football program after 74 years—sent shockwaves throughout the Boston collegiate football community. Boston University terminated its football program in 1997, and now, with Northeastern dropping its program, the city of Boston is left with just two Division I college football teams: Boston College and Harvard...
...decision was a difficult one,” wrote Northeastern Athletics Director Peter Roby in an open letter to the university community, “made all the more difficult because of the respect and admiration I have for our coaches and players...
When the Leonid meteoroid shower streaked across the sky in 1833, people in the northeastern United States took the deluge of bright, flying particles as a sign of the impending apocalypse...
...Ambitious One day this summer, Sean Maloney, an executive vice president at Intel, was bouncing from one appointment to another in northeastern China, speeding along in a van traversing newly built highways. He gazed out at one of the world's biggest construction projects: a network of high-speed train lines - covering 10,000 miles (16,000 km) nationwide - that China is building. As far as the eye could see, there sat vast concrete support struts, one after another, exactly 246 ft. (75 m) apart. Each was full of steel cables and weighed about 800 tons. "We used to build...
Harvard lost at the same location last year—not to Boston College but instead to Northeastern...