Word: gray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Vag just stopped, and looked around the Yard, noticing the platoons of officers, and the loose, straggling groups of girls. And this was Harvard! Half the Yard girls, the other half Navy. Vag remembered those first gray September days in Matthews, when the only cheerful thing was Bill Bingham's welcoming speech. And he thought of the football afternoons, when there were sometimes a few girls around, but never like this. The Yard was a very masculine place, sort of, and now the sight of all these girls worried...
...revealing that Eddie Duchin never did arrive in the Yard, and in having the central Yard path widened and paved in a startling gray for marching, the Navy has once more made its presence felt around Harvard...
...last Saturday morning that former Yardlings scratched their heads in amazement as maintenance men with picks and shovels dug into the sacred lawns of the Yard and turned its chief path from traditional black to bizarre gray. The reason was merely this: the old path had not been wide enough to hold a platoon of men three lines deep, during the formal color raisings and color lowerings held daily by the Navy men. It was not beneficial either for the lawn or for military order that the Guard of Honor should have to stand on the grass...
...next Saturday the Outing Club is running a tour of some of Boston's historic spots on the horse-drawn carriages of the Gray Line. And Sunday there will be an all-day bicycle trip which will have some watering place, probably the ocean, on its itinerary...
...petitions must be filled out as soon as possible, all those interested are asked to see Peter Gray in Eliot A-31 or phone KIRkland...