Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swimmer Dave Abramson '65 is a classic example of the falling athlete. He set NCAA freshman records in both the 220 and 440 yard freestyles and defeated Yale's Ed Townsend and Dave Lyons both on the same day Eventually Abramson became the team's captain, but he never reached the promise of his freshman year...
...Corner and the richer students of the University. But Kerry's Corner was a product of an earlier and it disappeared, taking with much of the flavor of turn-of-the-century politics. Harvard slowly expended its territory, creating the houses on the strip between the Charles and the Yard. Kerry's Corner contracted...
...understandably, have political outbursts against Harvard disappeared. "Let's get something sraight," city councillor Alfred E. Vellucci once said, "when Harvard's for something, I'm against it." Vellucci has often taken the initiative, proposing that part of Harvard Yard be turned into a parking lot, that the Lampoon be converted into a public lavatory, and that Plympton St. be renamed Cliffie Lane. His suggestions often achieve their only purpose, publicity. But even this reflects the "political capital" that can be made on the names of Harvard and M.I.T...
...December of 1940 the Committee for Militant Peace Action conducted a mass demonstration in the Yard and 400 students, teachers, and workers proclaimed "1941 shall not be 1917." Approximately 100 members of the Militant Aid to Britain Committee quickly organized a counter-rally and crashed through the pacifist picket lines singing "There Shall Always Be an England" and carrying posters which read "pacifists are yellow." The Action group replied by chanting "keep America out of war," and by passing out "the Yanks are not coming" buttons...
Although the isolationists continued to form new committees and to protest, they soon lost the support of most undergraduates. A week after the rival rallies in the Yard ended in a near riot, a poll conducted by the Student Defense League revealed that 84 of 99 students in Eliot House favored substantial military aid to Britain. Enrollment in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps was rising rapidly and every poll of Harvard students showed strong support for intervention on the side of the Allies...