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...years ago--on July 2, 1922, to be precise--that pioneer Ralph Samuelson strapped on the first pair of water skis on Lake Pipen in Minnesota. In 1985 a surfer aptly named Tony Finn developed a hybrid between a water ski and a surfboard called the Skurfer. But that skiboard was so narrow and buoyant that only the most experienced skiers could work it. Before skiboarding sank like a stone, water-ski manufacturer Herb O'Brien came up with the Hyperlite, a carbon-graphite board of neutral buoyancy with large dimples on the bottom (phasers, to those in the know...
...Washington janitor named James Hampton, The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly. The visionary urge appeared less often in professional art, until Modernism arrived. There are elements of it in the work of Thomas Cole and in the dark, brooding landscapes of Ralph Blakelock (1847-1919), who was to suffer a depressive breakdown and spend the last 20 years of his life in a mental hospital. But the exemplar of the visionary state was Blakelock's exact contemporary, Albert Pinkham Ryder...
Harvard had added its insurance with a run in the fifth and one in the eighth. With runners on first and third and no outs in the fifth, junior Brian Ralph singled to center to bring in Harvard's third run of the game. The Crimson scored in the eighth on an RBI single by junior Brett Vankoski...
...Ralph E. Vatner '99 supported the proposal because it levels the Core distribution between the humanities and sciences...
Sophomore Donald Jamieson (4-2) will start today's game for the Crimson. Jamieson recorded the victory in the Sunday's clincher over Princeton. In addition to Hogan and Duffell, six other Harvard players received All-Ivy honors. Junior center fielder Brian Ralph was named Ivy League Player of the Year. Albers was named to the All-Ivy First Team and Huling was named to the Second Team. Jamieson, Vankoski and Keck each received honorable mention. Army played yesterday's doubleheader without junior shortstop Mike Scioletti, who suffered a fractured wrist last weekend. Scioletti, the Patriot League Player...