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...adjust to her new subordinate role early in the season, accelerating the precipitous decline in her output. Only when she embraced the defensive responsibility which had been placed upon her did her play and offensive numbers rise to their previous levels—and her game to the highest tier, bridging her transition from that of the freshman offensive sparkplug to the junior bona fide star...
...three performances in both distances from pleasant surprises into standard fare—highlighted by his win in the 100-yard event at H-Y-P and third place finishes at the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL) Championships. But even as a rising star, Cromwell languished in the second tier of Harvard swimmers, a cut above the rest but just below former captain Dan Shevchik ’03 and John Cole ’04-’05, who consistently brought home multiple event wins at each meet, dominating the Crimson scoring charts. But with Shevchik?...
Nevertheless, some mixture of studying and socializing is not just inevitable, it is also highly desirable. It is self-evident that top-tier colleges should force students to engage with their studies; it should be similarly obvious that a college career spent doing little away from the library or the laboratory is also something of a waste. In many ways, Harvard’s superior reputation comes not just from its academic prowess—students at MIT or the University of Chicago, for example, are forced to cram far harder than Harvard undergraduates?...
...press conference after the game with his teammates, the Quakers’ captain—embodiment of all that Penn football stands for—felt the need to make a series of juvenile jabs at Harvard, Boston, New England and all other things better than his lower-tier Ivy just loud enough for everyone to hear. And they say Philadelphia is the city of brotherly love...
Columbia—the Cincinnati Bengals of the Ivy league—rose from the cellar this season after it posted as many Ivy wins in 2003 (3) as it had in the previous three seasons combined. That might be why Columbia was the only bottom tier Ivy school to see an increase in crowd turnout over its 2002 totals...