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...history, and to do something for the first time and achieve something like this is really special,” said head coach Kevin Rhoads, who was named the 2008 New England PGA Teacher of the Year. The Crimson came into the season with high expectations after a successful 2006-07 campaign. The players were also looking to atone for the disappointing fourth-place finish at the 2007 league championships, where they finished behind Princeton, Columbia, and Yale—the league’s three traditional powerhouses. Harvard started the season on a high note by winning the Dartmouth...
Some of the most notable moments in sports history, such as Babe Ruth’s “Called Shot” in the 1932 World Series and Joe Namath’s guaranteed victory in Superbowl III, occur when players foresee success. Last year, then-sophomore Chris Clayton made a less dramatic but equally accurate prediction of his own that his Harvard men’s tennis team would win the Ivy League this season. The Crimson, driven by solid play across the board, brought home the Ivy League Championship with a perfect 7-0 record and notched...
...four years later, my happiness is genuine, but the confidence that I possess is more than a simple optimism fed by success; it is the confidence to try, to risk failure, and to get back up again...
...credit Harvard for teaching me this, above all other things. In an institution that glorifies conventional notions of success, I believe the most important thing I learned here was how to fail. Failures are not the prettiest moments, and on graduation day, one is reluctant to remember crying over a poor Expository Writing grade or the emotional crisis of the first month of freshman year. Yet, without these moments, I would not be so proud of where I am today. I would not have felt as much joy in my grade on the next paper. I would...
...Harvard is a place that rewards success, and during senior spring in particular, these awards proliferate. Suddenly it seems that everything can be divided into Summas, Phi Beta Kappas, Hoopes prizes, and prestigious fellowships. But this is not the entire Harvard experience. The Harvard experience entails understanding and experiencing failure. It is comprised of students rising from that failure, overcoming that fear, and excelling in spite of it. That environment—made up of students who experienced few failures before college and have been humbled by Harvard—makes this school the amazing place that...