Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complete was the varsity's mastery over Columbia that it swept the top two places in the first eight events on the program. The Lions eventually managed to salvage only a second in the 200-yard breaststroke and a first in the 400-yard freestyle relay...
Captain Chouteau Dyer and sophomore Dick Seaton paced the Crimson, with two victories apiece. Dyer won both the 50- and 100-yard freestyle races, while Seaton took the longer freestyle events, 220 and 440 yards. Roger Clifton took second in the 50-yard event, Jon Lind in the 100, Tom Cochrane in the 220, and Peter Macky...
...Graduate School of Design, whom President Pusey has appointed to supervise Harvard's growth, will be faced by one of the most remarkable collections of immiscible architecture and short-sighted community planning in the country. Architectural styles from Georgian to Victorian to Late Depression jostle each other in the Yard and elsewhere, and buildings are often placed in the most inconvenient and inaccessible arrangements conceivable. Dean Sert's task requires more than an attempt to avoid any further unfortunate arrangement. To him is entrusted the fearsome task of bringing order out of chaos...
Facing the monstrous confusion of Harvard architecture, however, Dean Sert will be hard put to achieve many constructive ends. He cannot find a more central location for classrooms than the Yard. But to revamp that center would require vacating many classrooms during the period of construction. Dean Sert is called upon to perform a minor miracle. The only encouraging aspect to his job is that it is the first time Harvard has even seen fit to employ a moderately scientific method of development. We hope it is not too late...
...last night Chouteau Dyer provided the spectators with at least 49.4 seconds worth of excitement. After Brown had been swept in everything but the butterfly, Dyer covered the 100-yard freestyle in that time to set new Harvard and Harvard pool records...