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...resounding success, and the pub’s patrons included a “good mix” of undergraduates and recent graduates. The day after the pub’s grand opening festivities, Corker was speechless—he had lost his voice after staying the entire length of the pub’s maiden shift from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. “One of my favorite moments was overhearing the following comment: ‘I have never seen half the people here—this is exactly what Harvard needs...
...Then they had a really big push at about 700 meters in,” Kitovitz added. “They moved in front about half a length, but we just kept the pressure on them, and at about 1200 we were level again...
...They were up about half a length when they made that push, and we countered them right away,” she said. “We have the ability to race from behind, and we showed that this weekend...
...Reading the resulting piece - which Life published in its May 13, 1957, issue (one that is not online, unfortunately) - is hilarious today. Wasson describes his hallucinations at great length, in reverent terms: "The visions were not blurred or uncertain. They were sharply focused. I felt that I was now seeing plain, whereas ordinary vision gives us an imperfect view; I was seeing the archetypes, the Platonic ideas, that underlie the imperfect images of everyday life." This is druggie talk - febrile and largely meaningless. That it was printed in Life magazine - the most influential publication of the day - without irony shows...
...next three games—including two of Gardner’s service games—to end the match.That performance came after Hayes and Valkin demolished the Bears in pairs play, running away with an 8-2 win at No. 2 to clinch the doubles point. The length of the rallies on the No. 2 court meant that Harvard’s top pair, junior Ashwin Kumar and sophomore Sasha Ermakov, finished its 8-5 victory before Hayes and Valkin despite the smaller differential.Juniors Kieran Burke and Dan Nguyen completed the doubles sweep, winning in a tiebreak...