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...White stands for more than just excellence in rowing. The rowers competing in the Beanpot donned pink jerseys and to raise funds for the Susan G. Komen Foundation to fight breast cancer. Amidst all this, the Black and White dominated MIT, beating every boat the Engineers sent up the river and missed the pace set by UCF’s varsity eight by just one second.Primed for Eastern Sprints, Radcliffe returned to the Cooper River in Camden and managed to put together a team second-place finish in points behind Wisconsin, which upset heavily favored Princeton for the Sprints title.Radcliffe...
...concerns and complaints about malfunctioning facilities were brought to the fore this year when Winthrop House ended the de facto practice of promising singles to seniors and, later, when basements in that house flooded with human waste and sewage. Add these to a laundry list of complaints about the River Houses–everything from inoperable faucets and dysfunctional heaters to overflowing toilets, leaks, and massive cockroach infestations...
...same way that the eventual house renovations will need to meet the concerns of students and the city of Cambridge, Harvard’s other, longer term development project across the river in Allston is faced with the sometimes exorbitant demands of the city planning bureaucracy and the broader Allston community. No matter how excessive the demands of Allston residents may seem, however, Harvard should always err on the side of generosity, not only to preserve the best possible relationship with the Allston community, but because, as the world’s richest university, we can afford to undertake...
...threshold of Harvard Yard and Massachusetts Avenue stands Dexter Gate, donated to the college in 1890. It cuts through Wigglesworth Hall, and anybody who lives in a river house walks through it at least once a day. But for all of its traffic, few students notice the carved inscriptions in the stone arch above the gate. The outside of the gate reads, “Enter to grow in wisdom,” while the inside bears the message, “Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind...
When you come right down to it, The Bridge on the River Kwai is only a war melodrama. Its only valid “meaning” is as a glorification of human courage. Its primary appeal is not to the understanding or the esthetic sense, but to whatever in us is receptive to sheer physical action. But as such, it is a very fine movie, a highly effective blend of tension and irony...