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...fastest team or the strongest team, but we were smart. And we knew how to play and put the ball where we wanted it to go.”But they did have a few technical hurdles to overcome. “I didn’t even know the rules for the first year that I played,” Cooper admitted.Out of all the players on the winning team, Kingston estimates that two or three had played the game before arriving at Harvard. He contrasts this with the current powerhouse rugby teams, who field teams comprised mainly seasoned...
...woman during his office hours.Over the next four years, the Kilson case would open a pandora’s box. Two other incidents involving faculty members and students made headlines on a campus that had, up until that point, been largely silent on the issue.“I know that the University’s policy in a way hadn’t really paid attention to that issue,” said University Professor Sidney Verba ’53, who was the associate dean for Undergraduate Education at the time. “There was a time...
...that it apparently “seemed surprised to learn that, contrary to previous reports, it did, in fact, still exist.” Although news reports tried to convince me that Republicans were in power, I saw very little Republican presence on campus, and didn’t know any personally. Although I would meet a few eventually, the political uniformity reinforced my notion of Harvard as a somewhat sheltered planet...
...After our years here, many of us actually take solace in the Socrates maxim: “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” In writing a 147-page thesis, I still barely scratched the surface of my field of study. Yet the very fact that I realize this is oddly comforting: Perhaps this place has taught me well...
...tiny labyrinthine geometries, a cornucopia of universes bubbling up beyond the most distant cosmic horizon, the fabric of space and time being stitched from threads of vibrating strings. These are the partially formed, stunning possibilities that efforts have revealed so far. Are they right? I don’t know. No one does. There’s a chance that the new accelerator in Geneva, the Large Hadron Collider, may give us the first experimental insight...