Harvard graduates on their way to the university’s 374th commencement, in Cambridge, Massacussets, on Thursday. Thousands of students collected diplomas as Harvard’s lawyers prepare to battle the Trump administration in a Boston federal courtroom over the right to enroll international students. Photograph: Sophie Park/The New York Times In a plummier era for sports writing – and for Harvard University, and for the United States of America – the renaissance man George Plimpton brought his nine-year-old daughter to see his alma mater play the annual football game against its nemesis, Yale. It was close to Christmas, 1981, and afterwards Plimpton banged...