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...Internal renovations] will inevitably affect House spirit negatively,” said current Eliot House Master Lino Pertile. “The distinctive nature of various Houses has to do with the design of the House—the feel of it. The more you flatten out this distinctiveness, the more [the Houses] become the same, and so the more difficult it is to have House spirit...
Harvard has traditionally pooled cash from the University’s various schools in a General Operating Account that is invested alongside the endowment—a practice that the report said “generated significant positive investment results” in the past. But this year, that strategy backfired, dragging the value of the GOA down from $6.6 billion last year to $3.7 billion this year. Part of that decline reflects the payments made to terminate interest rate swap agreements...
This weekend, thousands of crew enthusiasts from across the world flocked to Cambridge for the 45th Annual Head of the Charles Regatta. For them, it was a chance to see rowing at its most elite, with various national teams taking the water, in addition to the much-vaunted “Great Eight”—a boat comprised of the world’s eight fastest scullers...
...This year, we had the boathouse swarmed with Olympians and people from various national teams,” lightweight captain Martin Eiermann said. “It’s always a special atmosphere. We all came into the weekend being really excited...
...better to suggest that one has just walked right through the screen into a Hitchcock thriller. Audience members—or, more accurately, participants—are given white full-face masks as they are called out of the bar area, and then separated from their groups into various areas of the transformed school...