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...after the boats settled into the first 500.Harvard’s steady settle allowed the second varsity to pull even with both Yale and Princeton within the first 400 meters, gained ground on Navy, and vied for second place by the halfway point. But the latter 1000 was unkind to Harvard, which had shown itself resilient to Yale’s attempted comeback in the final sprint three weeks ago.Navy surged at the 1000-meter mark to claim second place and begin a move on Cornell, while Harvard looked a sure third entering the final 500. But Yale, unable...
...just as remarkable, according to Engell, who added that despite the amount of scholarly work Evans did and the time he spent helping students and colleagues, he never seemed rushed. Many of Evans’ colleagues remarked on his gentlemanly presence, his modesty, his refusal to say anything unkind about anyone. Tobin said he remembers that at Evans’ 90th birthday party, a friend gave a toast comparing him to a medieval knight. “There was a kind of chivalric elegance to him,” Tobin said. Bruster quoted a passage from Shakespeare in which Hamlet...
...rims weren’t always unkind to the Crimson, which put together its finest first half of the year against the Terriers (6-2). Harvard shot 46.2 percent from the field and was in the lead for all but 20 seconds of the opening half. Laura Robinson’s three-pointer—one of four on the night—that beat the shot clock put the Crimson up 32-20 with 2:23 remaining in the first...
...this reason alone, the memoirs are a valuable contribution to 20th century demonology. Unfortunately for Wagener, fate continues to be unkind. His book drags him from the mercy of oblivion to play the part of history's fool. The Hitler he intended to re-create is not a tragic hero but a monumental bore. Gaseous generalizations and crackpot theories pour forth Like beer at an Oktoberfest. He thrills to something called the Odic force, "power rays" that flow from healthy bodies. He invokes Einstein's mathematics to justify his own mystical yearnings and "inner vibrations." He attempts to cross socialism...
...once but several times from his hospital room the President had talked wistfully about "going home." Over the years, Presidents have had any number of unkind observations about the rigid environs of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, about how it was like living over the store. But home it is now to Reagan. He credits most of this feeling to the nesting instinct of his wife Nancy...