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...with Harvard's dedicated and talented wrestling team. Not a team to just sit back and wait for things to happen, the Crimson has set a standard of excellence which it continually strives to surpass...
Thanks to these results, Harvard has not surprisingly guaranteed itself a spot in post-season play. With only two regular seasons left in the season, it is impossible for the ECAC's bottom three squads--Union, Vermont, and Colgate--to surpass the Crimson's 23 points...
This year's marathon match somehow managed to surpass the previous one in dramatic moments...
Gyorffy, showing no ill effects from the injuries that plagued her at the Millrose Games last week, cleared the 1.93-meter bar to win the high jump, and surpass the Automatic Qualifying height for NCAAs. It was the highest jump by a collegiate jumper in the country this season, eclipsing the Dec. 2 mark of teammate sophomore Kart Siilats, who jumped 1.83 meters to place second behind Gyorffy on Saturday...
...Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem, proposed to look "on Beauty bare"--in the utterly plebeian form of stacked cinder blocks, logs of Styrofoam on the gallery floor, industrial scrap, identical stripes without end or even just arrays of numbered cells on sheets of paper. Wouldn't this surpass the "bourgeois" desire for art as rare commodity and democratize the whole artmaking process (since, in some cases, almost anyone furnished with the right instructions could copy a simple piece and thus share an "unownable" idea rather than merely committing the sin of plagiarism...