Archives: March 2008

March 29, 2008

More on the Quidditch match

Friday and Saturday saw quite a lot of coverage of Friday morning’s Quidditch game. We’re unlikely to be able to find it all, but we will note: The Boston Globe’s very well-done article The Springfield Republican published this article...

Parker Morse '96 at 08:27 AM | Comments (2)

March 28, 2008

The First Televised Intercollegiate Quidditch Match

Well, if you can actually call it that, as actual play was halted frequently for television breaks. A fair-sized crowd including President Tony Marx and a number of children in costume turned up on the Freshman Quad this morning...

Parker Morse '96 at 09:14 AM | Comments (2)

March 27, 2008

"Muggle Quiddich" is coming

The College had the lead story in today’s Gazette, but the students in the photo were from Middlebury. The Vermont college has taken the lead in promoting “muggle Quiddich,” a version of the game described in the wildly popular “Harry...

Parker Morse '96 at 09:09 AM

March 22, 2008

Basketball falls in national title game

This afternoon, the Amherst men’s basketball team, looking for their second consecutive national title, ran into an absolute buzzsaw in the Division III national title game in Salem, Va. Washington University (St. Louis) shot 60% from the floor (including 46%...

Dave Nardolillo '98 at 05:51 PM | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Endowment spending and tuition

To tie together a few themes we’ve visited in the early part of this year, I want to call attention to a series of articles under the title, “The College Cost Dilemma” being run by Swarthmore’s Daily Gazette. Spurred, perhaps,...

Parker Morse '96 at 05:51 PM | Comments (1)