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...time to shake off the winter doldrums and get fired up for spring. The track and field squad is enjoying a three-week hiatus following the Indoor Heptagonal Championships—the end of the winter season—to prepare for next weekend’s spring season kickoff at the Texas Southern Relays. But junior high jumper Becky Christensen is finding out the hard way that there’s no rest for the weary. Last Friday, the Texas native competed in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships and brought home a fourth-place finish...
...Reagan Administration advisor who runs the free-market Ethan Allen Institute. An influx of urban refugees and hippie escapists from New York and Massachusetts in the 1960s and 1970s changed everything. Soon Vermont had ski resorts, billboard bans, chi-chi restaurants, yoga retreats, and liberal Democrats. "That was the kickoff for our spurt into the future," McLaughry says, with more than a hint of disapproval...
...close to Christmas that it simply makes sense to wait,” said Osasona, who passed up a weekend at home in Atlanta. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, members of the Woodbridge Society, an organization for Harvard’s international students, bonded through a Thanksgiving-kickoff party on Wednesday, dinner at Quincy House on Thursday, and a movie night in Lowell House on Saturday. According to Woodbridge Society board member Or Gadish ’10, the goal of the events was to share international cultures and to provide a sense of community to students studying far from...
...From “pre-frosh” weekend, presumptive Harvard students are nursed on bile toward Yale. Echoes of the rivalry reverberate in orientation sessions and programs during early September’s Freshmen Week. By the opening kickoff of the football season a few weeks later, the newest class at Harvard has become proudly aware of its identity not only with the red-brick, ivy-clad walls they will call home, but also with a long and storied tradition extending back into time as immemorial as it gets on this side of the Atlantic...
This Game was supposed to be one for the ages: a gridiron battle of Ivy unbeatens for the first time since 1968. But starting 68 seconds after the opening kickoff, Harvard turned it into a rout for the ages. Leaving the Yale Bowl, two things were undeniably evident: Yale sucks and Harvard reigns supreme. On the field, Harvard put on a clinic that demonstrated our superiority in every element of the game. On defense, Harvard held Yale’s star running back Mike McLeod—who entered the game averaging 174 yards per outing?...