Word: trended
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...very next night in a 27-point throttling at the hands of Princeton. To keep itself afloat in the Ivies this year, the Crimson will have to prove that it can hang with the big dogs of the Ancient Eight. Doing so would reverse a long running trend that has seen Harvard drop its last nine contests to Penn and thirteen of its last fourteen games to the Tigers.“The mental toughness aspect is very huge, especially in the Ivy League, where it’s short bursts of Friday-Saturday [games] and then five days...
...year.” Harvard is hoping that improvement will come from a return to its old guard-oriented blueprint. Sullivan has brought his squad back to the league mean in response to last year’s failure, attempting to find success by catering to the dominant Ivy trend. He recruited four guards, all 6’4 or shorter, and just two frontcourt players, neither taller than 6’7, swinging the balance back to the perimeter for the foreseeable future. The nucleus of this year’s team has also been transferred from the frontcourt...
...nine Ivy League titles in her 24 seasons as Harvard’s head coach, most recently in 2003 and 2005. The Crimson stumbled out of the gate in its Ivy opener against Dartmouth, losing 91-76 to the eventual league champions and beginning a frustrating trend of first-half lethargy that would mar the Ivy season.By the end of the year, Harvard had lost its star guard and co-captain Jessica Holsey ’06 to a season-ending concussion and given up a game-winning three-pointer to Brown with 0.4 seconds left. Worst of all, Harvard...
...years ago, then-Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 sent some advice to the nine people entrusted with finding Harvard’s next president.Lewis asked the search committee to reject a trend “toward celebrity presidents, individuals who are interesting public figures.” “A capacity to deal effectively with faculty and alumni is critical, of course, but to be a good presence on Sunday TV talk shows or Larry King Live is not,” Lewis wrote in his letter.But the committee didn?...
...only member of her Sisters of St. Francis of the Immaculate Conception in Peoria, Ill., to do so. (The others wear a simple dark dress adorned by a pin.) Though she admits "people just stare at you like you're a freak," she adds, "It's a trend with younger women wanting to wear the veil...