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Visiting crews to Philadelphia know the Schulykill course to be a challenging one. The bend in the race course forces the officials to use a staggered start that does not allow the eights to know exactly where they stand until after they come out of the turn at the 1000-meter mark. That can make for exciting psychological battles between coxswains and crews while they attempt to gauge their positions...
However, when the crews came out of the turn Saturday, there was little disputing who was in control of the race. The Crimson had opened an eight-seat lead by the 1000-meter mark after a solid start and the second-place Quaker eight was forced to reveal its hand...
Sprinting that early in a race is not without its costs. Harvard held off the premature Quaker charge and with 500 meters to go was ready to start its own sprint. Generally, when a crew makes a move and fails to catch the lead eight, the trailing crew cannot muster enough strength to make a second charge and fades...
...increase faculty involvement in tutorial teaching College-wide is to enlarge the faculty in all departments. Faculty members say they hope that the results of the extensive curriculum review will make a strong case for an expansion of the Faculty that Spence has lobbied for from the start of his tenure as dean...
...Force Kiki Vandeweghe to wear a pair of Groucho Marx glasses: One of two things will happen. Either Vandeweghe will think he's been transmogrified into Kurt Rambis and start to grab rebounds like he hasn't done in decades. Or the disguise will distract the Celtics...