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...against Dartmouth, it was the Big Green that handed the Crimson their first conference loss when Harvard visited Leede Arena the following week.That was the first contest of a five game road series that has thus far proven disappointing for the Crimson, who lost road games against Penn and Princeton last weekend. Harvard looks to rebound from its three-game losing streak against the Bulldogs tonight and Brown tomorrow night to wrap up its road trip, but does not want to dwell on its recent defeats.“It was a tough weekend with two losses...
When I first visited Harvard, I thought the Science Center was ugly, and the buildings in the Yard all looked the same. Having just beheld sculptured gothic at Yale and Princeton, I was left wondering why Harvard’s functional architecture didn’t impress as much as its peer institutions’. But I see now that the less grandiose aesthetic of this campus is not a failure of imagination but an authentic chronicle of its long past and an integral part of the college’s unique character...
Though most of our buildings lack the lavish uniformity of Yale or Princeton, the loose unity of the Harvard aesthetic is testament to our lack of pretension and honest relationship with its own history. In a way, the architecture of Harvard is an extension of its traditional attitude that its achievements should speak for themselves. (I don’t mean to pick on our Ivy League neighbors: Boston College, the University of Chicago, and Duke, to name a few, regularly advertise their flashy “gothic” campus in admissions materials despite having come into existence some...
Most of all, I came to appreciate the sense of ownership Harvard has over its sensible New England architecture that schools modeled after foreign designs can’t claim. Though the style may be utilitarian and moderate, it certainly is unique among other American colleges. Duke looks like Princeton, which looks like Yale, which looks like Oxford, but Harvard just looks like Harvard. That unique, redbrick identity is more precious than any sculpted New Haven bell tower...
...Penn and Princeton weekend—the “Killer P’s”—has given the men’s basketball team trouble for many years...