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...time of "Sweet Smell," the boites that gave a home to the columnists were heading for twilight - or, since they were nightclubs, their final dawn. The Stork Club went bankrupt and then kaput in the 60s. A later disco spurt would revive the turbid El Morocco; it's still there, but unrecognizable. The "21" Club somehow survived as a rich man's steak house until Anne Rosenzweig took over in the 80s and began serving edible food. Toots Shor declined when night games kept reporters from having dinner there with the ballplayers they covered. There were fewer ballplayers...
Department chair and Coolidge Professor David Blackbourn says he blames the exodus on a hiring spurt of junior faculty over the past few years, who customarily take sabbaticals after their third year at Harvard. But if the department knew that its new hires would all go on sabbatical in three years, it should have planned accordingly by spreading out the hires and hiring more junior faculty to pick up the slack next year. Although there’s little time left to recruit for next year, it should do what it can to fill out its roster. To alleviate...
Blackbourn said the departures were the result of a hiring spurt over the past few years of junior faculty members. Customarily, junior faculty members take sabbaticals after their third year at Harvard...
During the postgame press conference, junior guard Patrick Harvey expressed genuine surprise when he was asked what the team’s confidence was like after the Quaker spurt...
Merchant scored nine points in a span of 3:38 to ignite a 19-3 second-half run as Harvard staved off Dartmouth 70-53 at Lavietes Pavilion. The Crimson spurt negated a 17-1 rally by the Big Green, who never led but closed within 38-36 earlier in the half before Merchant took over...