Word: squashing
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...favor of mint tea and hot cider and forgoing spices. She says, "What I missed most was black pepper." This year she and 20 friends went all local for a week in January--hardly a season of plenty in New England. It wasn't so bad, what with baked squash, wheat-berry porridge, Vermont-cheese fondue, Indian pudding, parsnips, maple-apple pie and even elk and emu meat. But now that they have nothing to prove, they're reverting to August, as are two Vermont groups. Why make the effort at all? McGovern says she feels powerless to fight...
...something to show my by-the-numbers accomplishments. It started off straightforward enough. Football games covered: 24, plus I was in attendance for all but seven out of the 40. Ivy League championships covered: three, the undefeated 2004 football team and the 2003 and 2006 women’s squash teams.But then I struggled. I could calculate the cumulative number of miles traveled covering Harvard sports, but that seems like a lot of work. Number of states visited in the name of The Crimson? It’s only five, not including Massachusetts, but that doesn’t convey...
...Harvard men’s squash team, the script for the 2005-2006 season was a familiar...
...drive from New Haven to Cambridge takes two to three hours. If you’ve just upset the No. 1 team in the country, the trip seems to go a lot faster. When the third-ranked Harvard women’s squash team stunned top-ranked Yale, 5-4, on the Bulldogs’ home courts on Feb. 22, the Crimson earned both a joyous ride home and its first Ivy League championship since 2003. Harvard finished with a perfect 6-0 league record. The Crimson went on to take third at the Howe Cup national tournament...
...college days. A fine arts concentrator focusing in Dutch art, Welch was also features editor of The Crimson. According to Erica Rosenberg ’81, her roommate for three years in Thayer Hall and Lowell House, she also played in the University Band and was captain of the squash team. “She was actually really quite the jock,” Rosenberg says. “She brought a lot of flare to her work. She was very creative in what she did,” remembers Susan K. Brown ’81, who was city...