Word: ralph
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...Ralph and Hogan, who received the most prestigious individual honors on the team, were each incarnations of a team philosophy. Ralph's routine run-saving catches in center were the backbone of his game just as defense was this team's constant; his team-leading 24 stolen bases came both from his own prodigious speed and Walsh's firm belief in the hit-and-run; his .390 average and unexpected pop at the plate (six HR and 36 RBI in 50 games) were Harvard's offense in a nutshell: you never knew where the big hits were going to come...
Playing in the inaugural games for newly christened O'Donnell Field, the Crimson exploded for 18 runs in the first game, with Vankoski and Ralph each leaving the yard, to take an 18-3 victory. In the nightcap, Albers drove in the winning run with an infield single to give Harvard a 7-6 win and a share of the division title...
...Ralph homered again the next afternoon in Hanover to help the Crimson to a 12-3 win over the Big Green. The division title was solely Harvard...
Before I even arrived at Harvard for my first year, I completed one of my first intellectual requirements at the College: reading Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Self-Reliance," which had been mailed to all first-years during the summer. In this famous text, Emerson addresses the value of independent thought and asserts that the propensity to confront authority and orthodoxy was one of the hallmarks of a great intellect. He writes: "I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions... I ought to go upright and vital, and speak...
Oppenheimer was also a co-conspirator at the protest of a speech delivered by Ralph Reed at the Institute of Politics. There, Oppenheimer and several other students dressed themselves in nun's habits, and staged a kiss-in where men kissed men and women kissed women...