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Harvard's other wins have come against the B.U. Club, 14-5, Oxford, 15-7, and Bridgewater State, 16-10. The laxwomen tied Dartmouth, 7-7, and dropped an 8-6 decision to the Boston Lacrosse Club, a squad composed of former varsity players from a variety of colleges...
...sight and my hearing are not so good as they used to be. What are my complaints, if I can call them that? I think the greatest handicap for me of being eighty-five is that I have lost my surefootedness. (I am surprised that the Shorter Oxford Dictionary does not have this word, but I was reassured to find it in Webster.) I do not now feel happy walking among the coarse hummocks of a grassy hill. I do not like walking in the dark at all. When I was a young student of seventeen or eighteen, I remember...
...confirmed revisionists, such remarks seem like more of the moss-crusted obstructionism they feel has slowed scholarly progress for centuries. They point to the huffy removal of Sir Thomas More from Oxford by his father in the 15th century because the curriculum had added the newly "with it" subject of Greek. They like to recall the warning of Princeton President James McCosh in 1884 that removing Latin and Greek requirements would leave "the whole ancient world . . . unknown even to our educated...
Spoon dropping is not the only curious Cambridge custom. Because students apply to specific colleges within both Cambridge and Oxford, the colleges are more tightly knit than the Harvard houses. Each one has its own customs and identity...
...idea of sharing [college] accomodations pretty horrible," said Chirgwin. "Living in [Cambridge] University, I had either one or two rooms which were not shared in any way, and what I had was normal." Housing is guaranteed all three years at Cambridge and during the first and third years by Oxford...