Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Formal Opening Day ceremonies will take place tomorrow in the First Congregational Church, next to the Annex Yard. Seniors wearing cap and gown for the first time will lead the line of graduates and undergraduates into the chapel...
Women will get their first chance to view a Harvard Stadium football game from the 50 yard line on October 2, when the Crimson meets Columbia. Previously, Harvard men who wanted to bring dates had to turn in their single tickets in the cheering sections (sections 33 and 34) for a pair of tickets either in section 35, 36, or 37 or in the colonnade (now marked for overflow freshmen and graduate students). This year, for the first time, Harvard undergraduates, with or without female companions, will be seated according to their academic class. The above diagram is HAA director...
...they prefer to stay in the Yard, some Freshmen will be forced to live in the outside dormitories. Under the present system of tripling up double suites, etc., the Yard can hold about 1200 men approximately the expected final size of the Class...
...About 200 Freshmen are living in the gym now. This is unfortunate, but it is something that has happened to the two freshman classes before yours. It never lasts past the middle of October. In your ancient Yard dormitory cubicle, you may consider your self only slightly more fortunate. The high, narrow rooms may cramp you and the squeaking floors disturb your study. But remember, next year you will probably move into the much newer and more luxurious Houses along the river. Even as incipient carnal knowledge, the best course of action towards the housing situation is to relax...
...Each Yard house will enter at least one team in the touch football leagues, with the larger dormitories, such as Wigglesworth and Thayer, contributing two or more separate entries...