Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...manager's duties vary according to each sport and to each particular coach, but all of Harvard's student-managers fulfill several common functions. Most importantly, managers arrange transportation, food, and lodging for away games. In addition, they attend virtually every practice and game, keep statistics on the players, report scores and times after each contest, take care of refreshments and the medical kit for the players, and act as liasons between coaches, administrators, and Building and Grounds...
Margaret Gore, ex-manager for the men's fencing team says she started managing because, "I had lots of friends on the team, they needed a manager, and I wanted to learn about the sport." Senior Francesca Brockett, who manages the football team and believes her responsibilities and administrative duties as a manager have given her a solid background for the business world says, "I initially joined to get away from the library and to meet people...
...racquet shaped lia a pitchfork, diagonal stringing, crooked handles, and the infamous spaghetti racquet, a springly double-string device which, until its banishment, put a remarkable array of spins on the ball so looking back, it is no small miracle that today oversized racquets have succeeded in a sport so stubborn to change...
...other Harvard hockey news, junior defenseman Mitch Olson, one of the top Crimson blueliners during the '78-'79 and '79-80 campaigns, has decided to return to the sport after a year away from school nad will start at the junior varsity level...
...however, was to sell prospective students and parents harder on the traditional virtues of the small, all-male college. Among them: a teacher-student ratio of 12 to 1 or better, a conservative curriculum (Hampden-Sydney was the last U.S. college to drop its classical language requirement) and sport programs in which, as W. & L. Admissions Director Bill Hartog puts it, "you don't have to weigh 250 pounds and run a four-second 40-yard dash to play football...