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...would be served. Lorentzen won back the serve and the two points she needed to help hand Harvard its first Ivy title in three years and silence the rabid Bulldog hordes. “You hear the crowd, it’s obviously there, but you just have to shut it out,” said Lorentzen, who is currently the sixth-ranked player in the nation. “I was just trying to take each shot one at a time, be consistent, keep control of the rallies, and make her do the running...
What a difference a year can make. A year ago, the Harvard field hockey team had a winning record. A year ago, the team dominated its opponents, shutting them out four times on the season and scoring a total of 46 goals. A year ago, the Crimson held the Ivy League title. But that was a year ago. History had a very selective memory in the 2005 season, forgetting Harvard’s past successes. The Crimson was shut out in five of its 17 games and scored a mere 19 points on the season. Four contests went...
...what we were doing before, started today,” sophomore Steffan Wilson said after the Princeton games. “We needed two [wins]. We’d been struggling a little bit down in Florida.” Sophomore ace Shawn Haviland and freshman fireballer Adam Cole shut down Princeton—Cole fanned 11 in his Ivy debut—and seniors Javier Castellanos and Matt Brunnig provided competent, experienced innings at the back end of the rotation. With the bats, meanwhile, the lethal 1-2-3-4 punch of Matt Vance, Lance Salsgiver, Wilson, and Josh...
...priceless artifact, and his biographer takes full advantage of any occasion for a rich, satisfying digression. Holman met Franois Huber, a pioneering blind entomologist who, like Holman, had managed to carve out a career despite his disability. He studied bees using a special hinged hive that opened and shut like a book. Holman sailed with William Owen, the brilliant, illegitimate, eccentric naval captain who surveyed the coast of Africa...
...declining popularity in mainstream culture, Valentine does her part to keep the genre vibrant in the classroom for new generations of writers.Valentine held her first teaching position at Barnard in the spring of 1968, in the midst of political tumult. After a month of classes, Vietnam protestors at Columbia shut down the university, she recalls.“It was a very interesting time to be a student and to be a teacher. And to be a human being for that matter.”Valentine credits much of her teaching style to her old mentor, William Alfred, and says...