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...pretension. So if you were wondering over buffalo wings when Harvard last won first place in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition, the pub can tell you—in plaque form (it was in 2005). And if you are curious about at what hours women could visit the River Houses seven decades ago, parietal rules are on the wall—but thankfully not in force. Also hanging is a giant register of every Game and its score, revealing that Harvard holds sway o’er old Eli with startling inconsistency. The Pub was overwhelmingly popular...
...legitimate reasons to concentrate student space in a single location or benefits to the move. The new freshman social space in the Yard’s basements has been well received, and the College has provided a fine array of resources in SOCH to mitigate the shift from the river area. But regardless of the facts of the situation, College administrators lost the war of public opinion before it even began. Promises of free trinkets could not overcome irate student groups that made it clear that they would do little to use space that might risk alienating their membership. Time...
Navy may be named for its watery pursuits, but on the Charles River Saturday, the Midshipmen were nevertheless no match for the Harvard lightweights’ top boats, which wiped out memories of last year’s defeat at Navy’s hands—and losses in four of the last five years—with varsity and second varsity wins that brought the Haines Cup back to the Crimson.The varsity eight had a turbulent first half of the course, with Navy getting a few seats up off the line and gradually increasing its lead...
...once wrote that Yeltsin was a unique political mix. He combined a folksy Reaganesque simplicity with a Nixonian sense of political intrigue (and paranoia) plus a tendency toward accidents that recalled Gerald Ford. He once fell into a small river near his dacha outside of Moscow, surely drunk, possibly related to a tawdry love affair. On another occasion he was too soused to leave his plane to meet with the Irish Prime Minister - even as aides committed the ultimate lese majeste and slapped him hard to bring him to consciousness...
...campaign thrilled a long-suffering public, it enraged the party privilegentsia. Yeltsin biographers Vladimir Solovyov and Elena Klepikova quote a transcript of a meeting of party propaganda functionaries who berated his "Napoleonic ambitions." "Khrushchev tried to send us up the river too," one was quoted as saying...