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...League with Penn. Dartmouth won the crown with a 12-2 record, one of its losses coming at the hands of the Crimson. Beset with injuries and fatigue, Harvard, which started off a perfect 5-0 in the Ivy, ended the year on a 1-3 slide...
...opponents, including No. 1 Stanford, Cal and Pacific, balanced by a relatively easy Santa Clara team. Whether it was the jetlag or the sun, Harvard dropped the match to Santa Clara and was only able to pull out a victory over Pacific. Overall, the trip contributed to Harvard's slide in the national rankings...
...Even as the squad dropped six of seven after starting the season 5-0, Harvard did not appear to lose any intensity as it had done the year before in a similar late-season slide...
...cards will be sent when any emeritus member of the Faculty, research professor or current tenure-track professors dies. This was a University tradition until the central administration delegated the duty to individual faculties three years ago. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) let this custom slide away, as did all the other schools...
...discovery is that they don't know if the cracks are longtime formations that have gone unnoticed or a more recent phenomenon. They do know, however, that they form part of a wide scar caused by a landslide that occurred 16,000 to 18,000 years ago. Such a slide could be triggered by undersea seismic activity or the decomposition of gas hydrate deposits, a very rare occurrence on the East Coast continental shelf but one that would have devastating consequences. We'll know more about the situation this summer when the researchers go back to try and determine whether...