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...presence here a series of impressions on an IBM card. This spirit of live and let live extends through every aspect of undergraduate life. There are no big men on campus, only a host of little big men. The quest for fame reaches an early, flickering peak when 50 freshmen of whom no one but a few old-school friends have ever heard vie for the votes of an apathetic class to make the Union or Jubilee committees. An astonishingly large percentage of each class cannot tell you who the current football captain is, and at least an equally large...
...postseason play approached, Ungar stepped it up to another level. He won a bronze medal at the Intercollegiate Fencing Association championships, helping Harvard win the title. Less than 10 days later, Ungar won the NCAA Northeast Regional, clinching a berth in the national tournament.“He certainly peaked at the right time,” coach Peter Brand says. “During the year, he had his ups and downs, but ultimately, at the end of the year, it all came together for him.”Though Ungar got off to a slow start...
...Harvard? There was, undoubtedly and unavoidably, failure and worse. A disastrous performance in a class with Harvey Mansfield sophomore fall, when grade deflation was at its peak. A poorly planned and ultimately unsuccessful candidacy for president of The Crimson, closely followed by news of a family member’s terminal illness. A senior thesis that never really came together. An incarnation of Handsome Dan with unusually short bulldog legs. In short, more setbacks in the last four years than in the previous...
Every team has its highs and lows. For the Harvard women’s volleyball team, last year’s peak of winning its first-ever Ivy title was followed by a major valley in 2006: a winless league season. After graduating three members of the Class of 2005—including one of the Crimson’s all-time great hitters, Kaego Ogbechie—a young Harvard squad boasting just one senior displayed a lot of potential but struggled due to inexperience. Although the Crimson kicked off its season by capturing the New England Challenge title...
MOUNTING NATIONAL PRIDE Lebanon's flag was planted atop the peak for the first time, thanks to Maxim Chaya. And Leo Oracion became the first Filipino...