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...familiar is that the university once used magenta as its colors, but after a debate amongst students pushed the issue to a vote, the university switched its colors to crimson on May 6, 1875.Another piece of Harvard folklore contends that future university president Charles W. Eliot, while a student rower, distributed crimson scarves to his fellow rowers so that spectators could distinguish Harvard crew from the competition in the Regatta of 1858. After he served as Harvard’s 21st president from 1869-1909, the Harvard Corporation voted to make the color of Eliot’s scarves...

Author: By John R. Hein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PARTING SHOTS: I Am a Cram, a Cram I Am: Learning to Love Crimson Sports | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...cool as I wish I was,” Cuse jokes.As the co-executive producer of the popular show, Cuse is one of a handful of people who know the well-kept secrets behind the mysterious island on which the show is set. The former Harvard varsity rower has been involved with the show since its very early stages and has won several awards for his work.But Cuse’s huge success with “Lost” is just one stage in an illustrious career in entertainment that has led to the creation of several other popular...

Author: By Reed B. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Carlton Cuse | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...acted on a whim that succeeded only by chance, then fell through thanks to more of the same. I met one of my best friends two days into freshman week in line at University Health Services, an introduction made possible only because I saw myself as a future rower in need of medical clearance, and she wrongly thought she needed a physical to participate in intramurals. I was lucky enough to meet my 12 roommates only because we were randomly lotteried into the same house. I advanced at The Crimson as rapidly as I did only because the sports department...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn | Title: Chance and Handsome Dan | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...House with 20 dead mackerel and a five-foot eel. “The place stunk to high hell,” says Mark A. Adomanis ’07, coxswain for the men’s lightweight team and also a Crimson editor. Despite the maritime trend, lightweight rower Alex M. Phillips ’06 says he and his teammates are willing to be flexible. “The idea is to make sure the retaliation is so bad that [the Radcliffe team] never tries to pull a prank on us again,” Phillips says. Phillips...

Author: By Michael C. Koenigs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Go Fish, Pranksters! | 11/16/2005 | See Source »

Perhaps people have some stereotypes about athletes because of their limited contact with them. I, however, have seen a baseball player cut to the heart of romantic poetry, a lacrosse player with a rock-solid grasp of electoral reform, a rower receive top grades in statistics and calculus, another rower who, in addition to working an outside job, was a teaching fellow in engineering, and yes, I’ve seen a football player with the ability to converse about American literature with the profundity of a tenured professor. These are all varsity athletes, all clearly demonstrating more than enough...

Author: By Brendan D.B. Hodge, | Title: Something To Be Proud Of | 9/23/2005 | See Source »

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