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...injury-filled bench and a starting lineup that contained four freshmen and just two upperclassmen. Even with these setbacks the Crimson took second place overall, going 3-2 on the weekend to take second place in the tournament. Harvard faced the Bears in the championship game after defeating Penn in the semifinals. But Brown proved too good for the Crimson, running away to a 11-4 victory. Harvard managed to keep the game close in the first half, but fatigue wore them out as the game went on. “We got tired towards the end because we were...
Housman has been solid this season, averaging 12.3 points and 3.3 assists per game, but there is still one hump to get over—finding a victory against Penn or Princeton, or both...
...tough the Ivy League’s unique Friday-Saturday schedule can be to road teams on the second night. Of the four games played last Saturday, three of the road teams suffered somewhat surprising losses, while the fourth had to grind out a tough win. First, title favorite Penn suffered its first loss of the conference campaign at Yale, 77-68. Then streaking Cornell had its four-game winning streak snapped at Lavietes Pavillion to a Harvard team that had been blown off its home court by Columbia the night before. The same Lions team that won handily...
...with members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.“If there are going to be problems they are certainly not going to be the same kind of problems,” Lynn Hunt, a professor of history at UCLA and a former colleague of Faust at Penn, said last month.A ‘SUBTLE SKILL’As president of a large and decentralized university, Faust will have to find means to build consensus among its many factions, an area in which Summers did not succeed—even with some help from Faust herself.After Summers drew...
...Tufts all denied interest in Harvard’s top job. Some did so with a gust of humor (Duke President Richard H. Brodhead: “What a foolish question. I already have a great job”) and others with a gasp of exasperation (head of Penn Amy Gutmann ’71, who made it deep into the search that resulted in Lawrence H. Summers’ selection six years ago: “I am absolutely committed to being Penn’s president, and I am not interested in any other presidency”).Such...