Word: yard
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Members of Massachusetts Fair Share, a citizens' action group, demonstrated in the Yard in an attempt to convince the University to double the payments it makes to the City of Boston each year in lieu of taxes. Although Harvard is legally tax exempt, it pays the city $2 million each year to cover tax payments on some of its larger real estate holdings; the citizens' group wanted the University to up the rate to $5.3 million. After failing in an attempt to meet with President Bok--University police officers informed the protestors that "nobody's home" when they came calling...
...gathered outside Pusey library on April 23, the date of the closed Corporation meeting that would decide Harvard's stock policy for the year. Some protesters, dismayed by the Corporation's failure to announce its decision immediately, surrounded President Bok as he tried to make his way across the Yard at the end of the day, and watched as the University police whisked him away in a patrol car; others took up an around-the-clock vigil outside University Hall and vowed to stay there until a final decision came down...
President Bok's celebrated stroll through the Yard in the midst of the first major demonstration against the Corporation's South African investments did not earn him brownie points for talkativeness. Surrounded by a group of students asking him for comment on the Corporation's upcoming decision, Bok merely smiled a fixed smile and proceeded towards Massachusetts Hall, where more demonstrators blocked his entrance to the building. Smile undisturbed, he strolled across Mass Ave., where a University police car whisked him away over crowds who tried to block the car's exit. "It's just another day in the life...
...Harvard career, Curry caught 68 passes for 1268 yards and ten touchdowns, and punted for a 35.1 yard average. He stands second on Harvard's all-time list in catches and total yardage...
...National Weather Service's prediction of a 90-per-cent chance of rain holds true, the traditional procession of seniors and alumni/ae into the Yard will be cancelled, but the exercises in the Yard's Tercentenary Theatre will continue, rain or shine, Victor A. Koivumaki III '68, a member of the Committee for the Happy Observance of Commencement, said yesterday. The last time rain fell on the Commencement exercises...