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...frustrating inconsistency—untimely droughts followed by offensive outbursts and stalwart defense—is a mark of the youth that has kept Harvard out of the Ivy title hunt since the fourth weekend of the season.“We’ve tried to iron [the slow starts] out,” said Harvard head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith. “I guess people would say that’s what an inexperienced team does. If you open up any sports psychology books, they’re going to say that’s what...
...here for six years, I can attest that the Faculty is in no way a festering cauldron of left-wing lunatics. Overall, its members are a diverse and impressive group of hard-working scholars, variously committed to teaching and public life, open-minded and broadly tolerant, but generally quite slow to voice their dissent on most matters. In other words, they are politically liberal but temperamentally quite moderate. Much like the undergraduates they teach, they are more interested in professional success than in social justice. They hardly constitute a threat to Harvard or to civilization...
...games, the team dominated in the tiebreak, pulling away from the Gamecocks tandem to win 9-8 (8-5) “The doubles was a trigger point for our success,” O’Riain said. “The girls we were playing would hit slow, so halfway through we decided to go for it more and really play on our toes.” The co-captains continued their dominance in singles, gaining two key victories. O’Riain won, 6-3, 6-4, at No. 2 and Anderson completed...
...Crimson hosting Clarkson at Bright Hockey Center next weekend in the opening round of the playoff tourney.A day earlier, St. Lawrence’s 3-0 victory over Harvard was a first, snapping a 13-game unbeaten streak that the Crimson had held against the Saints. In both contests, slow starts left Harvard struggling to climb back into the games.“The first period is something we have struggled with all season,” captain Carrie Schroyer said. “It’s just a matter of mentally engaging a little more, which...
...relay. Although teams are allowed 17 swimmers to compete, Harvard consisted of only nine swimmers. The rest of the Crimson team stayed behind in Cambridge to prepare for next week’s Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League Championships, which will take place in East Meadow, N.Y. After a slow first day on Friday, Mitchell’s excellent performance in the 200-yard freestyle jump-started the Crimson. Mitchell went on to snag third in the 500-yard freestyle and went to the finals in the mile swim. He also participated in four relays. “Brendan Mitchell...