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...players are batting above .300 and seven Bears have more RBI than the Crimson’s leading run-producer, Vance, who has 15 RBI. Harvard hurlers will have to find a way to contain Brown for the Crimson to have a chance.“They can swing it, but the key is to mix speeds,” Haviland said. “They’re a good fastball hitting team.”The Bears’ power starts with junior Matt Nuzzo, a first team All-Ivy performer in 2007. Before Brown?...
...Eagles didn’t take long to respond. Boston College got their first two batters on base to start the sixth inning. With two on and no one out Allard sent Madick to the circle to replace sophomre Margaux Black in an effort to stop the momentum swing. Madick, though, walked the first batter she faced to load the bases. The next hitter blasted a grand slam over the fences to spoil the Crimson’s lead. “It was a rise ball that wasn’t out of the zone enough...
...merriment to distract us from merriment missing elsewhere. White plastic barriers will border out a little rectangle of joy and shouting. And at the center of this spectacle, splashed across all of Yardfest’s promotional literature and giving form to its carefree spirit, will be the tire swing...
...funny thing to have hanging under the branches of stately old Harvard trees. The tire swing has become the pagan totem of our spring rite, and we—its fanatics—flock to it out of simple glee or hipster irony. Like a hypnotic pendulum lulling away the vulgarities of everyday stress, the tire swing beckons us to Yardfest in a more complex way than the food monopoly and in a more subtle way than the rap stars. One can imagine Yardfest without the dining services’ cornucopia, without the spectacle of saccharine country and ironic...
...watching America’s sharpest young minds lining up scores-deep in order to secure a minute of monitored levitation. Now and then a muddling passerby will accidentally wander into the swing’s ambit and, after a tussle of shouts, duck for safety. Sometimes the swing will make rubber-to-skull contact, and an uncomfortable and embarrassed student will bowl over onto the grass. In the true fashion of a totem, though, the gentle swinging will stir deep memories in all of us—memories of childhoods real or imagined, individual and collective apparitions...