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...this highly competitive sport of squash,” said captain Ilan Oren, who will be starting in the second position. “Of course our immediate goal is to win the Ivy title.” “This time we want to win the Ivies outright,” Sheth added. After some excruciatingly close losses last year—the most heartbreaking perhaps being the 5-4 loss to the Tigers, which made it impossible for the Crimson to clinch sole possession of the Ivy title—the team this year hopes to learn...
Princeton keeps the prospect of an outright Harvard title alive in New Haven...
...only Ivy loss of the season, it was the Crimson who had the last laugh. Heading into the weekend, the Crimson and the Quakers were both contending for the top spot in the league. Harvard controlled its destiny with a half-game lead and stood to clinch the outright championship with a win, while Penn needed a Crimson loss or tie to get a piece of the title. By winning the Ivies, Harvard, which was ranked No. 17 in Division I entering the weekend and boasts the second most prolific offense in the nation with a 2.59 goals per game...
...after an improvised fourth-down touchdown play and a botched snap on a Penn extra point. Consequently, Princeton preserves its second-place tie with Harvard and keeps its hopes alive for a share of the Ivy championship.Only one scenario remains whereby Harvard could win the Ivy title outright. Princeton and Yale face off next weekend in New Haven with first place on the line. If the Tigers defeat the Bulldogs, the Crimson would need wins over Penn and Yale in their remaining two games, coupled with a Princeton loss to lowly Dartmouth in the season’s final week...
...excellent clue. So is that stuff about expressing "what might have been Arbus' inner experience." It is really a statement of desperation. It might just as well not have reflected her inner experience. How are we to know? For we are not talking "untrustworthy narrators" here; we are talking outright liars, people who couldn't figure out a compelling story from the materials at hand and just decided-what the hell!-to make something up as they went along...