Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard fooled me. I never visited as a pre-frosh. I saw the school during the summer, when Harvard was basking in its post-Commencement, post-reunion grandeur. Little did I know that I would have little chance to enjoy the grass whose praises Rosovsky trumpeted so loudly...
...undergraduate, you can't enjoy Harvard's grass--at least not in the spring, when you're supposed to. As soon as the front-page captions in the Crimson begin to read "Suzie Q. Wiggles-worth '94 enjoys the warm spring weather," Harvard begins to tear up the ground...
...says no. Come April, the dead turf at the edge of the paved walkways is torn up. The dirt is loosened, seeds are planted. Sticky green hydroturf (a combination fertilizer/pigeon defense) is sprayed on top of the whole project. And the good folls at Facilities Maintenance rope off the grass...
Roped-off, hydroturfed grass doesn't do undergraduates any good. But come Commencement and reunion time, the resodded Yard will look just wonderful...
...interviews, Bok actually lists among his proudest accomplishments the relandscaping of the University and the improvement of Harvard's grass. The outgoing president boasts that Harvard in the Bok era has had lush green grass for every reunion...