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About the two worst athletic facilities in the East are Harvard University's--that's right--and Maryland Eastern Shore's." [George Plimpton, Sports Illustrated, Feb.2...
While George Plimpton's assessment of Harvard's athletic facilities may seem rather harsh (it was presented from a scouting vantage point) it does largely ring true...
...social sciences what Big Bird is to Sesame Street, that master of monetary mirth-John Kenneth Galbraith!" And so it went last week in Boston, where Harvard President Derek Bok, Author George Plimpton and 500 other old Crimsons watched the king-sized economist, now 67, honored as Harvard's "funniest professor in 100 years." The festivities, all part of the centennial celebration of the Harvard Lampoon, included a cash prize of $10,000, which Galbraith promptly donated to the university's Fogg Museum, noting that "nothing so fittingly caps an unsuccessful academic career at Harvard as recognition, however...
...Lots of people juggle, but to be able to do tricks consistently enough and before an audience..." mused Plimpton, distinguishing Haber from more amateur jugglers...
Taking up the clubs, he began a "threeclub cascade." He then "exchanged" the clubs for three others his roommate, John Plimpton '78 held, tossing them one at a time over the ten feet separating the two jugglers, while each marked time with the two remaining clubs...