Word: perfective
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...arrived at Harvard. My fellow students seemed, somehow, to find Boston teams a bit tiresome, if such a thing could be believed. Some people, I quickly learned, were tired of hearing about curses from a team with the second-highest payroll in baseball, or about the quarterback who threw perfect spirals and dated Brazilian übermodels. In fact, they seemed to feel that Boston fans were just a little bit entitled (imagine that!), unbearably smug and boastful when their teams won, and sulky and defensive when they didn’t.It was earth-shattering, to learn that outside...
...oarsman to catch a crab in the final 200 meters, allowing the Badgers to overtake the Crimson in the last moments of the race. “After a string of wins in the dual races of each subsequent Saturday, we were firmly on track for achieving the perfect record,” Morgan said. “Being denied this at Eastern Sprints was a bitter pill to swallow, especially since we faltered in the closing seconds of the race.” Despite the letdown at Eastern Sprints, the Harvard heavyweights’ season has been largely characterized...
...What really is satisfying about this one is that the essence of coaching is when things aren’t perfect, how you respond to it,” Murphy said after the Yale win. “Just one day at a time, one practice at a time, we said our next practice is our best practice, our next game is our best game, and this is one of those teams that got better and better through the year, closer and closer through the year...
...great things we did this season.”Harvard set the tone with a 4-1 win over Cornell on January 4, and from then on, it seemed that nothing could stop the Crimson.The team rattled off 21 straight victories and became the first team to complete a perfect ECAC regular season and sweep the conference playoffs along the way.It was another win over the Big Red—a 4-2 decision in Ithaca—that gave Harvard a perfect 22-0-0 regular season ECAC record. “It’s a pretty unbelievable...
...college administration, working to mitigate what will be a difficult and costly transition.When a coach is being unfairly held responsible for his team’s failures, when an athlete is deserving of a national award, or when a team is barred from participating in the playoffs after a perfect 10-0 season, reporters can step in and be advocates, supporting those subjects that they so often impartially cover or even criticize. Since we have unparalleled access to student-athletes and their problems, we can magnify their concerns in a way professionals cannot.Such stories do not go against the principles...