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...Children over 6 years old (school age) have a stricter regimen: They usually rise at 6 a.m and go outside for morning exercises - calisthenics in the yard - then have breakfast, usually sticky rice or noodles with vegetables or bread. They then prepare to bicycle to a school about a mile away. At 11:30 they return for lunch and a nap. At 2:30, some may go back to school and others stay at home and work on homework. In late afternoon, they have dinner and then, about 6 p.m., free time. "They may play football or read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Visit to Pax's Orphanage | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...admit I had very specific expectations before move-in day. Those restless August nights gave way to fever dreams. A tweed-clad throng led the class of 2010 on an inaugural foxhunt through the Old Yard. I developed a close relationship with Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, the manly Kenan Jr. Professor of Government with a heart of gold. We ate at a candlelit table; Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes made clear which fork was for which dish...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: To The Queen’s Head | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...you’ll probably catch an STD at one of Currier’s sweaty filthy parties in its various living rooms—most Currierites seem to.DUNSTER: Let’s be honest, generally Dunster kinda bites. But crappy housing and Quad-like distance from the Yard (minus the Quad-like parties) at least makes for good house dynamics, if not commiserative bonding. Rumor always has it that Dunster’s masters, the Porters, are the reason Funster is so unfun. If the rumor isn’t true, Dunsterites really have no excuse.ELIOT: Eliot is home...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 2010: You Got Housed! | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

...said there were not any immediate plans for renovation or reconfiguration of the building for other uses. He said the official transfer of Mass. Hall from FAS to the central administration took place on July 1, the day after former University President Lawrence H. Summers moved out of the Yard...

Author: By Madeline W. Lissner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mass. Hall to Ditch Frosh | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

...isolated break-ins, muggings, and assaults that happen in Harvard Square’s mean streets are trivialized as a series of isolated incidents, random occurrences that most of us have no reason to fear. One student, robbed in broad daylight in the middle of Harvard Yard this past January, even told The Crimson that the ordeal was a “freak incident,” and that he still felt safe walking around Harvard Square...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg | Title: Mean Streets | 3/19/2007 | See Source »

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