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...them—and I kind of wanted to go get their autograph.”One of those top athletes she had rowed with before. Davies stroked the varsity eight at the World Championships, and after she led the team to a world record performance, the Harvard grad stood atop the medal stand with a gold medal. As the top rower on the top boat, Davies had found the top in another aspect—as the best heavyweight rower in the world.“Caryn is something else,” Lofgren said. “Stroking...
...meters right.Throughout the dual season, the Crimson tanked after settling into a base cadence off the race’s opening high 20. So in Camden, Harvard opted not to settle, racing the whole 2,000 meters at an unfathomable 41 strokes per minute.At the halfway point, the Crimson stood dead even with Cornell. The boats exchanged inches in the last 1,000 meters, hurtling down the course in a back-and-forth slugfest made more dramatic by the alternating surge of each crew’s bow ball.Everyone expected No. 1 Cornell to be up front...
...field was not good from the start.” Despite an apparent lack of focus, Harvard still appeared the superior team for nearly the whole game. On the day, the Crimson posted 24 shots and held a 9-1 advantage in corner kicks, but Crusader goalkeeper Jessica Stone stood strong against Harvard’s offensive onslaught to record fourteen saves. In the opening frame, the Crimson controlled play and rarely allowed pressure into its own half. But after a seemingly endless number of near-misses and unlucky breaks, Harvard found itself in a scoreless match at the break...
...several hundred students out, hungry, in the cold at last year’s run on Lamont. “We weren’t sure how many of you to expect,” Larsen Librarian of Harvard College Nancy M. Cline told a crowd of students who stood outside the library to hear her opening remarks and to watch Undergraduate Council members and Librarian of the Lamont Library Heather E. Cole cut the ceremonial ribbon. Following the ceremony, students filtered inside to view the cafe, which is designed to resemble the Lamont reading rooms. The cafe will serve...
...manufacture one penny cost 0.8 cents and rising. Oh yes, there is also the minor trifle that huge demand for these metals encourages the environmentally destructive mining process needed to extract them. Add one more category of people whom the penny hurts: those who’ve ever stood in line. A study has shown that making change with pennies adds three seconds to every cash transaction. Penny elimination would save us all time and help us avoid that one customer who insists on paying with exact change, earning stares as dirty as his currency. On the other side...