Word: yard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lawrence Whittier Newell '04 will lead the traditional procession of seniors and alumni that will meet at 9:20 a.m. in the Old Yard between University Hall and Johnston Gate, and file into Tercentenary Theater for the morning exercises...
Whether or not football induced the glow, the Class of '54 saw Harvard, then as now, as idyllic home. The distinguished lecturers and guests--Bertrand Russell, T.S. Eliot, Konrad Adenauer, Archibald MacLeish's audiences spilled out into the Yard--came and went...
Athletic Director Jack Reardon met the bus in front of Blodgett Pool to begin a tour of the Soldiers Field facilities. We had just come from Agassiz Theater in Radcliffe Yard, where the committee had heard a group of student actors sing selections from a Gilbert & Sullivan show. The need for increased funding for the arts (i.e., the "pitch") preceded the entertainment...
...passed by Soldiers Field on the bus ride back to the Yard, Reardon told the sad tale of how the oldest concrete stadium in the country is in danger of being condemned. An architectural engineering study has revealed weaknesses in its support system, and funds will have to be raised to prevent its decay and demise. Reardon told the committee that "parts of Baker Field at Columbia have been condemned, and it's very embarrassing to a school (not to mention its athletic director) to have it happen...
...that was OK. The fact that the Dean of the Faculty didn't want me along for his 'talk and tour' made me feel very much like a Harvard undergraduate again, and my personal uneasiness slowly dissolved amid the bustle of my classmates in the Yard...