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...wasn't a total loss for the Crimson, however, for the Cornell thrashing provided some hard-won experience for upcoming battles with Wellesley and Yale. "You learn a lot because they are such excellent fencers," Leonidas said...
With only two months experience, Sue has already defeated divers from Tufts, Dartmouth and Wellesley. She has learned all 21 different dives necessary to compete, and has overcome the fear of hitting the board on reverse and inward dives, a fear which she said originally hampered her performance...
...hallowed halls early in the '70s put a great deal of pressure on the female branch of the Ivy League to follow suit and open their doors to men. Each of the Seven Sisters responded differently to that pressure: Vassar admitted men outright; Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith and Wellesley settled for sedate exchange programs with neighboring men's colleges; and Radcliffe and Barnard merged with their parent (male) universities. In I'm Radcliffe, Fly Me!, Livia Baker examines the success of each of the routes, and the direct effect the changes brought on the position of women in these...
Other campuses around Boston closed down for a day or two--MIT, Tufts, Wellesley, and Boston College, to name a few. But Harvard braved the elements and stayed open. "To my knowledge, Harvard has never closed because of flooding--at least not in the twentieth century," said Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, who lives quite close by in Cambridge...
Radcliffe blitzed to a 41-27 lead to begin the second half, outscoring Wellesley 15-4 and silencing the screaming masses in the gallery. But they were only dormant, not dead. Strong inside work by Lisa Griffin, the game's high scorer with 19 points, and some timely steals by Joanie Ashley added up to 10 straight Wellesley points and an astronomic decibel level...