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...This year??s heavyweight senior class certainly deserves all the hype that surrounds it. With the experience of 11 seniors leading the squad and the highest finish at NCAAs in three years last season, the Radcliffe heavyweights have earned the respect of their peers and thrown down the gauntlet for a competitive and fast year. This season, nothing is out of reach for the first varsity boat, propelled by the strength of the senior class. Physically and mentally, these veterans are ready to prove that Radcliffe is a world class team.The 2007-’08 season ended...
...People are more interested in seeing boats succeed across the board,” the captain said. “It really is something that we do use in the fall to set goals.”With this injection of new blood into the varsity and a new year??s beginning, the future looks promising for Harvard rowing in the coming nine months.“We have all the tools to make it work, we just have to put them together,” Schreck said. “I think we are in a very...
...struggled throughout the season—defeating just Penn and MIT and ending the dual racing season with a 2-6 record.The varsity eight placed eighth at EARC Sprints, and the uncoxed four finished third at IRA nationals. Despite its underwhelming spring, the lightweight team is optimistic that this year??s results will differ dramatically.“I think it was a disappointing season, because we didn’t finish as well as we hoped at Sprints,” senior coxswain Kevin He said. “We don’t want to dwell...
...Book Foundation, the non-profit literary foundation that gives out the awards. The winner will be announced next month in New York City. Faust’s sixth book takes on how Americans managed and understood death during the Civil War, her area of scholarly expertise. Published early last year??just months after Faust assumed the Harvard presidency—the book garnered largely positive reviews and impressive sales for a historical work. In its first five months in print, Faust’s book sold close to 40,000 copies according to data from Nielsen BookScan...
...case.For more than a generation before 1950, Harvard offered two distinct degrees to its graduating seniors. The Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) and the Bachelor of Science (S.B.) degrees were nearly identical in all of their requirements, aside from one crucial aspect: The more highly-coveted A.B. mandated an extra year??s study in Latin.And up until only recently, the classical languages of Latin and Greek formed the foundation for almost all of higher education. Most public high schools offered at least introductory instruction, and preparatory schools like Choate and Groton—which maintains even today an effective...