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Harvard sailing center has that sinking feeling

By adamg on Thu, 03/08/2018 - 3:59pm
Sinking sailing center

That sinking feeling. Photo by Caitlin.

The Crimson reports the U's sailing center has lost buoyancy and is settling with the fishes down by the Longfellow Bridge.

And please, now would not be the time to bring up the old joke about why the Harvard Bridge is named that.

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Comments

By anon on Thu, 03/08/2018 - 8:02pm.

Is there a gofundme link?

By johnmcboston on Fri, 03/09/2018 - 8:48am.

Really??

By LaLa on Fri, 03/09/2018 - 10:28am.

but in the meantime, there's this ----- "Harvard University's endowment (valued at $37.6 billion as of 2015) is the largest academic endowment in the world."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University_endowment

By Irma la Douce on Fri, 03/09/2018 - 3:56am.

In 1995 a State Police helicopter crashed into the roof, killing the four people on board. The pavilion sustained heavy damage.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1996/9/19/harvard-seeking-damages-for-...

By R Hookup on Fri, 03/09/2018 - 8:47am.

I was working in One Memorial Drive when that happened. I was fortunate not to see the accident itself (though I know others who watched it crash), though I did see the aftermath. I was interviewing someone when all the sirens went off, but we didn't look out the huge windows in the conference room facing the Charles.

By Lee on Fri, 03/09/2018 - 9:01am.

... joke?

By Irma la Douce on Fri, 03/09/2018 - 9:43am.

The bridge was said to be named for "THE preeminent" scholarly institution in the area. MIT is said to have responded that the bridge's many engineering defects made the naming for Harvard especially appropriate.

By Allstownie on Fri, 03/09/2018 - 12:32pm.

Harvard is no longer my safety school