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...many measures, the men’s golf team had the finest season in its history. Harvard’s scoring average of 294.07 shattered its previous best by more than seven strokes, and the Crimson finished better than sixth at every event. Yet for the 35th straight season, Harvard could not capture the Ivy League Championship on the final weekend, as it gave up a first-round lead and finished in fifth place...
Even though she grew up around the world, Owada was more familiar with Cambridge than most Harvard freshmen when she moved into the fourth floor of Thayer in September of 1981. Her father was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School for the previous two years, and Owada spent her junior and senior years of high school at nearby Belmont High School...
...life took another turn. At a banquet in Tokyo, Owada met Crown Prince Naruhito, the bachelor prince. While the prince immediately took to Owada, there were obstacles to marriage. A Crown Princess, by Japanese tradition, must come from an aristocratic family, be under 25, and have never had a previous romantic relationship...
When Bunting-Smith arrived at Radcliffe in early 1960, her actions and perspective departed from those of the previous president, Wilbur K. Jordan...
...alumni praise Light for his leadership during the recent economic downturn, several long-time faculty members note that Light’s agenda closely followed that of his predecessor. Some of the school’s most prominent initiatives, they say, grew out of preliminary work undertaken during the previous administration under Kim B. Clark ’74, whom he replaced first as interim dean in 2005 before assuming the permanent position...