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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard JV and freshman boats completed the sweep of the regatta with wins in their respective races against the Elis. The JV squad raced its three-mile race in 15:05.2, outlasting Yale by 5.5 seconds. The Crimson freshman crew barely held on to top its Eli opponent by 1.8 seconds over a two-mile course...
...HENLEY NOTEBOOK: The Radcliffe varsity eights, considered by many to be the top boat in the country, did not compete in the national championships in order to prepare for its first trip to the Royal Henley Regatta in England...
Real Harvard professors are too busy to teach summer school. Senior faculty spend the summer jetting around the world and having lunch with top government officials. Junior professors spend the summer months frantically attempting to churn out the reams of published material you need to get a lifetime post here...
Indeed, two top feminist scholars were on the short list of candidates for the position--Harvard Law School Professor Martha L. Minow and Duke University Professor Anne F. Scott. But both removed themselves from the list. Another candidate, Yale University Professor Judith Rodin, turned down Radcliffe's offer. The Board of Trustees should not have been surprised. What committed academic would want to be the president of a college consisting solely of three programs...
...these women were accorded little status precisely because they never altered dishes. Top honors went to the male chefs, who had undergone long classical training either as apprentices or in professional schools, and who were celebrated for their creativity and inventiveness with new dishes. A case in point: La Mere Blanc in Vonnas, France, was long a famous cuisine de femme restaurant, but it earned Michelin's three-star rating only after Georges Blanc took over from his mother and began to dream up nouvelle haute cuisine...