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Intramural basketball team plays its best to lose
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Intramural basketball team plays its best to lose

Shot after shot, nothing. Play after play, and no cigar. After 20 tries, freshman Nick Blatner scored his first basket, and his team erupted in celebration.  This is the Sewer: an aptly-named intramural men’s basketball team with a singular mission of losing every game it plays. Each basketball season, the players crawl out of Simpson...

‘Holding a weapon used by my ancestors’: Due to a generous donation, Mossey Library adds a collection of Revolutionary War-era flintock pistols and muskets to Heritage Room
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‘Holding a weapon used by my ancestors’: Due to a generous donation, Mossey Library adds a collection of Revolutionary War-era flintock pistols and muskets to Heritage Room

Pistols made for the Royal Mail coach are now on display in the heritage room. Courtesy | Catherine Maxwell  The beauty of the Heritage Room will now be matched by its brawn: a set of flintlock pistols and muskets dating back to the Revolutionary War. Clinton Miller donated the weapons in the summer of 2020,...

Forty days of fasting, remembrance, and prayer
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Forty days of fasting, remembrance, and prayer

It’s easy to tell that Lent has begun when students walk across campus with ashen crosses on their foreheads. The religious season of Lent involves a variety of devotions, including alms-giving,  fasting, and penitence. Practices vary widely by Christian denomination and church, and some Christians don’t observe Lent at all. “Lent is one of the...