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...years, Harvard had won the Rowe Cup (for most points in the combined varsity, J.V. and freshmen heavyweight races) 17 times. The next closest competitor was Yale, with six wins. The Worcester Bowl, awarded to the winning varsity heavyweight eight, had resided in Cambridge from 1964-70 and the again from...
Through early-morning hints of sunlight, the Harvard fortunes had proceeded well enough. All six boats had qualified for the finals, five of the six winning their heats. The super-psyched varsity lights had posted a time six seconds better than any other crew on the course that morning. It was nothing unexpected, but at least it wasn't disappointing...
...call to the bullpen came at West Point Saturday. Roberts would play seventh singles, an exhibition match. The Fates were not willing, though, as rain cancelled all but the top six singles matches (which Harvard won easily...
Three more match points ensued when the Crimson dropped four of the first six tiebreaker points. At 2-4, Chaikovsky served, then hit four straight volleys, the last of which caught the net and hung in the air for the "bearded lefty." "He whaled on it, and it hit like the back screen," Chaikovsky said. At 3-4, Cornell missed the return, and the tension-filled match boiled down to one final, glorious, gut-wrenching point (is that one adjective too many...
...theory to phenomena outside the realm of pure mathematics. It turns out that most of the elementary structures are not quite so elementary: although the simplest of these, the "fold" catastrophe, may be depicted by a parabola, the complex "parabolic umbilic" model cannot be represented in fewer than six dimensions. In addition, some of the structures have such a narrow range of stable states that they are practically useless as real-life models...