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...there are other things to think about. Improving a .500 conference record. Gaining pole position for the ECAC playoffs. Making the NCAA Tournament. After losing to Boston College, 6-5, in overtime last night at TD Banknorth Garden in a Beanpot championship game for the ages, the Harvard men’s hockey team will have to find its glory elsewhere...
...Stanton said. “Indoors is a lot different from outdoors and from cross-country and Claire’s cross-country.” The women’s squad also offered notable showings in the field events, including three top-10 finishes. In the pole vault, Stanton and classmate Clara Blattler cleared a 10th place height of 3.45 meters (11’3”) and a runner-up height of 3.70 meters (12’1”), respectively. Becky Christensen led Harvard high jumpers with a 1.73 meter (5’8”) jump...
Senior Molly Boyle had a career afternoon in the weight throw, winning the event with a heave of 15.98 meters. Co-captain Sally Stanton continued her form from last weekend’s breakthrough event, equaling her career-best pole vault mark of 3.75 meters in winning the event. Fellow senior Clara Blattler cleared 3.65 meters to take second place...
...Three more event winners came on the men’s side, where senior Brian Holmquest won the 3,000 meters in 8:16.93, a personal best. Captain Alex Lewis won the long jump with a 6.79 leap, and freshman Sean Gil rounded out the winners by taking the pole vault after clearing 4.80 meters. “I did less event work during the break, so it made me more inconsistent,” Gil said. “As the day went on I did start to loosen up a little more and the distance...
...Still, he continued to seek out challenges. In 1958, as leader of a support team to Vivian Fuchs' planned crossing of Antarctica, he made a controversial dash by tractor to the South Pole, becoming the first person ever to reach it in a motor vehicle. In 1962 he began working to better the lives of the Sherpas who had so often helped him. His Himalayan Trust built schools and clinics and restored monasteries. The numbers of people - many almost totally reliant on Sherpa guides - who flocked to Everest in his wake left him uneasy. "Everest, unfortunately, is largely becoming...