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...nickname for the 15-ft.-deep bunker beside the 17th green at the Oakmont Country Club. It's swallowing me whole--I jump off the sand just to peek at the pin. Soon, the U.S. Open will descend on this storied Pittsburgh, Pa.--area course for a record eighth time. But today I'm the entertainment. A couple of caddies encourage me to swing my sand wedge and lift the ball over the mountain in front of me. I take my hardest hack; the ball knocks against Big Mouth's lip and scurries back to my feet. I take five...
...doesn't stop there. The 288-yd. eighth hole and the 667-yd. 12th, specially lengthened for the tourney, are the longest par three and par five, respectively, in Open history. Oakmont has added some 20 bunkers--there are now 210 traps on the course--and moved many of them closer to the fairways. Plus, since the last Oakmont U.S. Open, in '94, the club has undertaken a clandestine, middle-of-the-night deforestation scheme, against the opposition of many tree-loving members, that better lets in the Allegheny winds and summer heat...
...Madick, the Ivy League Pitcher of the Year, the Crimson compiled a 2.47 ERA, second in the league to Cornell by just .03. Backing Madick up in the rotation were fellow junior Amanda Watkins and freshman Dana Roberts. Watkins went 7-1 with a 2.54 ERA, good enough for eighth in the league, while Roberts recorded a 7-5 record and a 2.60 ERA, ranking ninth in the league. On the field, the Crimson first found real success over spring break. Competing in Macon, Ga., for the Mercer Nissan Invitational, Harvard won four straight games after dropping its opener, beating...
...going 9-10 through the regular season, Harvard took third at the Northern Division Championships. The finish was not good enough to punch an automatic ticket to the Eastern Championships, but after a couple of anxious days of waiting, the selection committee awarded Harvard an at-large bid. The eighth-seeded Crimson finished eighth, but the expereince will no doubt pay off over the next few years. “While we got better we are still young so a lot of it is just a seasoning issue,” Farrar said. “The experience of doing...
...existing houses—Adams, Dunster, Eliot, Kirkland, Leverett, Lowell and Winthrop—were built for a normal capacity of 1,846 undergraduates, according to the October 1957 issue of Harvard Today. By 1957, that number had ballooned to 2,955. With the funds from the PHC, an eighth house was to be built by 1959. In March of 1957, The Crimson reported that the block bounded by Mill, Mt. Auburn, Plympton and DeWolfe Streets had been chosen as the site for the new House and would cost about $5 million to construct. At the time, the site...