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The drinking pump in front of Hollis and Stoughton was placed there at the time of the tercentenary, in 1936, on the site of a similar apparatus which used to supply water to the residents of those Halls before "modern" plumbing was installed there.
The radio school is intended to have a potential capacity of 1000 officers in staggered six-month courses with 125 men in each section. They will be barracked in Freshman halls beginning in the sector of Hollis, Stoughton, Holworthy, and Thayer and expanding southward.
Contracting to use Harvard facilities until the close of the war or until it gives 90 days notice, the Navy is establishing here one of three radio training centers. Each school will have a potential capacity of 1000 officers in staggered six-month courses with 125 men in each section...
Use of the Yard for the training and barracking of American service men is nothing new. During the Revolutionary seige of Boston, Harvard was moved to Concord and the College buildings used by Washington's troops. For approximately six months soldiers lived in what are now Massachusetts, Hollis, and Stoughton...
By the fall of 1918 the entire scheme of military training at Harvard had been thoroughly organized. Those in Navy training lived in Weld and Grays Halls and Holyoke House, while men in the Naval Ensigns' School filled Matthews Hall. In Hollis, Stoughton, and Holworthy, now to be occupied by...