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Flyby rejoiced over the new site after stumbling across a preview in which Harvard's hallowed shield was displayed prominently on the header of the home page. But, apparently laying claim to Boston's oldest football, basketball, hockey, and baseball teams doesn't buy you much love. Read on after the jump to see what went wrong...
...when Keating proved herself as a natural leader—earning three team MVP honors across the two sports.While Keating showed talent in both sports, field hockey proved to have the stronger pull, and as she looked to continue her career it was a logical step to follow her oldest sister Kristen, class of 2006 to Cambridge.“[Kristen] went through the same program, with the same coaches,” Keating explains. “She really enjoyed her experience here.”Although the sisters did not overlap, Keating thought she learned enough from...
...Tobacco users could be charged 1½ times what non-tobacco users are charged. The oldest Americans buying private insurance could be charged five times what youngest Americans are charged. And insurers would be banned from capping the amount they pay out on a policy annually...
...graze is not explicitly stated in any official document, it was an ancient right starting with the first man to hold the esteemed position. “Edward Wigglesworth historically did graze his cows where we are now standing,” said Cox during the ceremony. As the oldest endowed chair in America, the Hollis Professor of Divinity position was funded in 1721 by Thomas Hollis, a major benefactor of Harvard in its early years and the namesake of Hollis Hall and the Hollis library catalog. According to Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes?...
...Harvey Cox, who recently retired as the Hollis Professor of Divinity, the oldest endowed chair in America, decided to exercise the traditional grazing rights that originally came with that position. As I watched Professor Cox and the Jersey cow named Faith reenact this venerable, and now slightly amusing, tradition from a window in University Hall, it seemed that he had provided the perfect metaphor for the purpose of the endowment...