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...Head of The Charles Regatta Committee defines a "mixed eight" as: "four male rowers, four female rowers with coxwain." A pretty straightforward definition, right? Yet somehow the "mixed eight" principle has encountered a whole lot of conceptual difficulty. It seems to rank as just slightly more difficult to grasp than that of a Harvard launch painted flourescent pink, and just slightly less difficult to grasp than John Higgenson rowing in a mixed single. What species of boat is a "mixed eight...
...exciting, invigorating, aggressive game of football staged by Harvard and Dartmouth at the Stadium on Saturday, but the outcome was the same as it's been for the past five years--and it leads one to believe that Harvard gridiron victories over the boys in Green rank right up there with turmoil in the Middle East and Adlai Stevenson concession speeches for things we can take for granted...
Masterson's father is a lawman himself, having served on the New York City police force for 23 years, rising to the rank of sergeant. When Masterson was a junior at St. Francis, he and his father attended the Harvard-Yale Game. "My father asked me 'do you think you could be down there?'," Masterson recalls, "and I really couldn't imagine myself in that position...
Hops, skip, and a boot: There's really not much to say. Reports have been published that rank the town of Hanover as the third largest consumer of Anheuser-Busch products in the country. I believe the top two are the Vicksburg, Miss., Chamber of Commerce and Joe Cocker...
Harvard largely abandoned the use of instructors in the '60s when the University could not attract new Ph.D. holders to fill such a low rank...