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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Laura Brown, Russell Long, Buck Webb, Chuck Tabor, Levitt, and Fleming shared in the skippering duties for the Crimson...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Stong, | Title: Sailors Catch the Wind, Place Teams in Nationals | 5/4/1976 | See Source »

...surprise victor at the Boston Cup, as it sailed past nationally-ranked University of Rhode Island, Tufts, and Webb Institute. Harvard finished a dismal fifth...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Strong, | Title: Sailors Veer off Course in Regattas | 4/8/1976 | See Source »

...Harvard Square station, David Hershey-Webb ("pretentious name," he apologized) told me has cut short a planned evening of guitar-playing, singing and coin-collecting in front of the Coop to go to a party at the Commonwealth School, a progressive private school in a Back Bay townhouse. "I went to school there last year, and I'm going to go there again next year," Hershey-Webb said. "This year I'm taking a sabbatical at a Boston public high school so I won't be a private schoolie like her." He pointed to the girl sitting next...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: Notes from the Underground | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...Hershey-Webb went on. "The school I'm at now is really terrible. It blew my mind. There are seniors who can't read. If you can't read, you're nowhere. What they do all day is beat people up." Hershey-Webb said he was "trying to reform the place in my own quiet way." So far his campaign had involved writing a letter to the school paper, explaining why "their methods of teaching are wrong, and their attitudes are wrong." "Anyway," he said, "it's an experience, and that's what I wanted." He and his friend...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: Notes from the Underground | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

Upstairs the platform was almost empty. A uniformed T worker with a bullhorn had just announced to a small band, including a forlorn David Hershey-Webb, that a derailment at Copley Square had broken all Green Line service as far as Kenmore. Above ground, a confused crowd waited for buses. The overland route brought us to Kenmore Square, where another disgruntled crowd milled about. Across Beacon Street, in the Relax-A-Bit coffee house, a streetcar driver sullenly sipped coffee. He looked as gloomy as if he had driven the streetcar off its track himself; perhaps the derailment meant...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: Notes from the Underground | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

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