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...turn of the country, Harvard football games already attracted large crowds so large, in fact, that the narrow foot bridge connecting Soldiers Field with Cambridge nearly collapsed every time the mob poured over it. This severe congestion inspired The Lampoon to parody Longfellow's "The Bridge Over the Charles" with a poem beginning...
Long-range weather forecasters predict partly cloudy skies, moderate northeast winds, and temperatures around 55 degrees. The afternoon's tour de force covers a mile and three-quarters upstream from the Longfellow bridge to the M.I.T. boathouse. The first race between the Crimson and M.I.T. 150-pound freshman crews begins at 3 P.M. and the next five are scheduled to follow at half-hour intervals...
...collection is housed in Byerly Hall, next to Longfellow on the Radcliffe quadrangle. Science majors usually give only a casual glance at the woodpanelled, book-lined Library to the right of the entrance. Now overflowing their quarters, the letters, manuscripts, and records are shelved in a room adjacent to the Library...
...with the papers of women who led suffrage, temperance, and educational crusades. These more famous records of important American women are shelved opposite publications by Radcliffe graduates, books on women, and the records of the college itself. The special collection on Women's Rights is placed separately in 203 Longfellow Hall...
...Richardson, to Walter Gropius. The unofficial part of the Yard-the shops and stores that rim it-are a jumble all their own. Bookshops and soda fountains jockey for position; haircuts, haberdashery and history are all for sale. There is a pharmacy that once doled out pills to Longfellow and Emerson; there is a bank that has been called the "most literate bank in the world" (among the 100 "books published by our customers in the past two years" it once displayed: James Conant's Education and Liberty, Arthur Schlesinjer's Cotton Kingdom, Geologist Reginald Daly...