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Heavyweight crew would probably agree that a moment at the peak would be a welcome change...
...only blemish came against Princeton on the last day of January. The Tigers, shaved and tapered, threw all they had at the Crimson for the dual meet. Harvard, waiting till the Easterns and national tournament to peak, battled well despite the odds and fell...
...Harvard's e-mail system was processing about 40,000 to 50,000 messages a day. This fall, the system was processing closer to 300,000 messages a day and at peak times would have more than 1,000 users logged on at once...
...From Peak to Valley
...appetite for the real, the pragmatic and the scientifically verifiable had long been resident in 19th century America. But it was brought to a peak in the wake of the Civil War. The journalistic eye was equal, as a transmitter of (sometimes unbearable) reality, to that of the novelist or poet; the camera replaced the draftsman in reportage. This was new. American public culture was now driven by technique--the skills that built bridges and docks and railroads, the scientific laws that underwrote Americans' conquest of their environment. There was no ghost in the machine, only the machine itself...