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...were struggling with injuries the entire year, and I was really impressed with how the guys fought the whole time. We went into matches that we really could not win because of the forfeits we had to make.” The Crimson also benefitted from the rise of some young talents, which included freshmen Louis Caputo (184 lbs.) and Andrew Flanagan (157 lbs.). Flanagan finished first in the EIWAs, and was one of the five Harvard wrestlers—along with Caputo—to qualify for the NCAA tournament. Flanagan, Ogunwole, and Meltzer all made...
...That rise may also reflect a deliberate public-education campaign, including public-service announcements on TV Land and Nick at Nite that are designed to convince families that it's worth some inconvenience or compromise to make meals together a priority. The enemies here are laziness and leniency: "We're talking about a contemporary style of parenting, particularly in the middle class, that is overindulgent of children," argues William Doherty, a professor of family social science at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and author of The Intentional Family: Simple Rituals to Strengthen Family Ties. "It treats them as customers...
...Through his career he’s a guy who has never hidden the fact that he has a great affinity for Harvard hockey and Harvard hockey players.”Cleary, known for being an Olympian purist, was said to have been dismayed by the rise of Olympic “dream teams” feeling instead that the Olympics ought to belong to amateurs. Donato also describes him as a purist in terms of ice hockey.“He tried to play the game from a pure standpoint, not as an act of thuggery but a show...
...life, marking a shift from the post-World War II period. War veterans who returned to Harvard as undergraduates, hardened from years of fighting, were much older and less likely to accept the parietal rules, according to Morton Keller, co-author of “Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University.” But the matriculation of the Class of 1956 saw a more compliant student body. “The tone of the school was not as frivolous as it had been before the war,” says Keller. And because admissions...
...writing service. The service, called “editorial consultants,” will research, outline, draft, and type up a 60 page thesis on any subject for as little as $20.10/24: A head-on auto collision kills a 38 year-old woman and injures two students. A rise in tuition is predicted a day later: $1000 high. Endowment hits new high: $442M.10/31: The business school broadens the scope of the student aid fund. Four days later, Aldrich acquits Kamin on two accounts, two remain.11/5: The chem department hopes to exapand the Mallinckrodt lab in the spring. A week...