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Insult was added to injury the following week as Yale also came from behind in the fourth quarter to win the 117th playing of The Game, 34-24. Turnovers killed the Crimson, as the Elis capitalized on three interceptions and two fumbles in the final quarter to pull out a victory in The Game for the third straight year...
...Hosting the NCAA regional at home was a big coup for the Crimson, whose home record has historically been excellent. But the Fighting Irish were just too much, rolling off four straight points before Harvard could pull out even one match...
...picked him originally because we thought the number one thing Harvard needed at the time was someone who could pull the whole University together more,” explains Robert G. Stone Jr. ’45, who sat on the committee that chose Rudenstine...
...about it,” he says. “And certainly to voice my opinions, and be engaged with it. And if I didn’t like what was in some sense already mandated as goals and aspirations for the institution, I had plenty of time to pull out. And if I didn’t think that some of those goals matched some of my talents, I had plenty of time to pull...
Rudenstine didn’t pull out. And as he prepares to hand over the keys to his Mass. Hall office 10 years later, he leaves a conflicted record in his wake—a fatter wallet, a more diverse University, the potential for a larger campus—but a diminished bully pulpit and a distinct sense of distance between undergraduates and Harvard’s administration...