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...season’s most notable games came against Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y. on Oct. 17. Harvard, which entered the contest having lost seven of its last eight, shut out the Big Red—one of the leaders in the Ivy League at the time—in a 1-0 victory. A second-half goal from co-captain Elizabeth Goodman-Bacon accounted for the game’s only offense...
...week stretch in October, two tough losses and one unexpected tie threatened to derail Harvard’s title hopes. Harvard tied Cornell, 1-1, on Oct. 10, and then suffered its worst loss of the season, a 4-0 defeat to No. 17 Connecticut, four days later...
...Oct. 1, 1960, Nigeria formally severed with the British Empire following 160 years of colonial rule, and soon thereafter appointed Nnamdi Azikiwe its head of state. As fanfare and festivities erupted that week in the city of Lagos, roughly 30 Nigerian students attending universities in the Boston area celebrated remotely, alongside then-Harvard undergraduate Chukwuma B. Azikiwe ’63, son of the man who would soon take the helm of the most populous nation in Africa...
...other teams in the league, Harvard’s 3-2 win against Yale on Oct. 20 showed that the squad was finally finding its rhythm—and put the team in the driver’s seat of the Ancient Eight race...
This dismissal—which severs the student’s ties with the University—marks the first since the Faculty amended its disciplinary policies on Oct...