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Whom, then, will this change help? Only the admissions office, which is acting, it seems, out of a selfish desire to move up a notch or two in meaningless college guides by improving its yield. But that yield is already astronomically high. This move bespeaks that most un-Harvard of qualities: insecurity. If Harvard is afraid that competitors like Yale and Stanford, both of which recently switched from binding to non-binding early admissions policies, will snatch up its best applicants, surely the answer is not to put a further stranglehold on those students. A school with our prestige...
Playing for the Owls—currently the No. 1 ranked team in the country and a perennial national power—made sense. Rice was a strong academic institution just a few well-hit balls from home, with top-notch facilities and a reputation for producing ball players. It was Hendricks’ first choice, but Owls coach Wayne Graham wanted to wait and see what type of senior season he had before offering a scholarship. It turned out to be one of the best in Texas...
...member of the Harvard women’s golf team, it means you turn your game up a notch and leave two-thirds of the field in dust...
...Hawks (17-9), who participated in last year’s NCAA tournament, were simply a cut above Harvard, winning 8-5 despite a top-notch Crimson effort...
...early on, as Harvard fell to the same patter that had led to the Big Red’s sweep of the regular season series. It took less than a minute for Cornell to get on the power play, and less than two minutes for the Big Red to notch the game’s first goal. Fittingly, Paolini opened the scoring, deflecting in a Stephen Bâby slap shot. In three meetings with the Crimson this season, Cornell scored the first goal in the opening two minutes each time...