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Pommen’s replacement, 19-year-old Ben Smith, heightened the drama. Ben’s brother, Matt Smith, is the President of Oxford’s boat. Between that duo and James and David Livingston—rowing for Cambridge and Oxford, respectively—the Boat Race was now the first with two pairs of brothers rowing in opposing boats...
After the ruckus of the training, the race itself brought no less drama. Though the first turn in the course was in the Dark Blues’ favor, Oxford could not advance on the Light Blues, and at the mile marker, Cambridge had a third of a length’s lead and remained a second ahead of the Dark Blues at the Hammersmith Bridge...
...However, Oxford pushed back, and even cuffed oars with Mallinson and Smith in the Light Blue boat, grabbing a two-second advantage by the Barnes Bridge. With little space to rally, Cambridge pulled its stroke rating up to 44 strokes per minute, unheard of in the last legs of the race...
...boats crossed the finish line together and the crews sat dazed and exhausted, waiting to hear the winner announced. At last, the ruling came, and Oxford was declared victorious by the smallest margin in Race history...
...hardest part of finding art in the Dudley Co-op, Harvard’s quirkiest off-campus residence, is finding the co-op itself. After a ten minute walk up Oxford Street, there are no indications that Dudley is anything other than another house along quiet Sacramento Street—until the black-and-white hand-lettered sign above the door, touting the building as the “Center For High-Energy Metaphysics,” comes into view...