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After Eliot’s forty year term—the longest in Harvard’s history—A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, would take the reins. While Lowell broke with the past in his love of the macho sport of football, he despised organized cheering. In a 1911 Crimson article, Lowell described the practice as “barren, poor, and meagre,” and “with less modulation, less means of expressing degrees and varieties of emotion of any kind than any other form of expression—with the possible exception...
...three brutal overtimes with each missed scoring opportunity extending their agony, to the Eagles’ Anna McDonald finally scoring the winning goal over 114 minutes after the opening faceoff, having practiced for only four days since being cleared to play following a serious groin injury. It was the longest game in NCAA women’s history, but it didn’t get boring for a second...
...Greeted by the longest applause of the conference, Faust takes the stage. Faust discusses the challenges facing Harvard and the University's expansion into Allston. "Americans sacrifice and struggle to get their children into college or university, yet mock those same institutions as self indulgent, hidebound, badly managed," she says. She says that what Harvard "helps to define the character and meaning of the universities of the 21st century...
Vengeance will have to wait until next year. Looking to defeat a Boston College team that ended its seven-year streak of consecutive Beanpot titles last season, the Harvard women’s hockey team came up short, suffering an agonizing 4-3 defeat in the longest women’s game in NCAA history.After 114 minutes and 13 seconds, the Eagles’ Anna McDonald put a pass from teammate Kelli Stack into the back of the Crimson net, ending the epic contest in triple overtime.“It was a great hockey game,” said...
...every last official from a crew that whistled a mere eight penalties in nearly two game’s worth of hockey, the rest of the Crimson long since headed for the solace of the visitors’ locker room. There is only history, having participated in the longest game in NCAA history, since the organization began keeping records for women’s hockey in 2000. Longer even than the Crimson’s memorable triple-overtime war of attrition with Mercyhurst in the Frozen Eight two years ago. Longer, the press box consensus went, than any college women?...