Word: phils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passengers settled down and the bus moved up to Mass Ave and the "hallowed" Yard, as Phil called it, The tour brochure has a few words about this, too: "Entering Harvard Square, we view the famous Harvard particularly what appear to be Harvard students, is their tendency to act out before the sightseers and often-times wave. Nowhere else on the tour were people so conscious of being watched. I guess it's because we always fancy ourselves under observation. We seem to have the notion that average Americans find us especially fascinating; after all, even we usually find ourselves...
...left M.I.T. and headed down Mem Drive. After a dissertation about the Polaroid-Land Company, Phil turned to current events. "Romember about two months ago when we had that women's lib march?" he asked. "Do you want to see the building where it all started...
...Well, if you'll look to your right you'll see it right now. 888 Memorial Drive. They called that no man's land." Chuckles. Phil continued. "They wanted to make that into a day-care center for kids. As I've told many tours, they must've had a hell of a lot of ambition." A camera clicked while the riders sized up the building and shock their heads...
...made the right up Plympton Street and heard all about John Kennedy and his undergraduate days in Winthrop, off to the left. Phil apologized that the route did not allow us to go right by it. Instead, sightseers got a good look at Quincy House, home of Boston City Council candidate Larry DiCara: But we weren't told about Larry. As we peered into the Quincy courtyard, we saw frisbies flying through the air, as they are wont to do. "Looks like they're studying hard." one woman said to her husband. "Surprised they can see the frisbies with...
...Phil said, "even the Harvard students have to relax...