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...with relatives but was soon turned out of their house. His high school was the streets. He was working as a railway car waiter in the 1930s when he picked up a magazine left behind by a passenger and had his first look at the indelible images of Depression-era America made by Dorothea Lange and other photographers for the Farm Security Administration, the FSA. By that time he had already been a semi-pro basketball player and a pianist in a brothel, so he was not a man averse to trying his hand at just about anything. Within...
...simply was Christian.“A student in 1970 and a student in 1870 were educated in very different ways,” says Daniel E. Luxemburg ’07, who will be writing his thesis on the shift. “But regardless of the era, there’s an idea that an institution can and does reproduce knowledge objectively in students.” In response to those who criticize the role that Christianity plays in a university that is officially unaffiliated, Gomes says, “What annoys some people is that the symbols...
...returning regular on the mound, with a promising trio of freshman hurlers joining an intriguing collection of veterans to help him chew up innings for the Crimson in 2006.Haviland, the de facto ace, went 7-1 in 14 appearances during his freshman campaign, leading the team with a 3.10 ERA and holding opponents to a .225 batting average. A pre-season first-team All-Ivy pick and the only Harvard representative on the All-Northeast Corridor squad, he hopes to rebound from a bout of mononucleosis late last spring and reprise his role as a surefire weekend starter...
...era already sopping with societal contradictions, we must take the responsibility to stand by our words and to resist the temptation to be preachy if we aren’t sure where we really stand. If you’re planning to ascend that soapbox, make sure you’re in it for the long haul...
Mixing experience with youth will be key for the pitching staff this spring. Last season the team finished with a 3.75 ERA, just ten complete games to its opponents’ 26, and teams hit for a .281 average against the young staff. Many of the squad’s woes came as a result of injuries, an issue that led to two freshman starting 23 out of the team’s 38 games. “What’s good for us this year is that we have two sophomores that did a lot of starting last...