Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was open rebellion. The campus was busy with activities. Said George Moore, "Groups are to be seen at all times in the College yard and around the doors of the buildings talking over this subject...
...only player in Harvard history to have broken the 2000-yard rushing barrier, and his twenty career touchdowns and 120 points place him second in both categories behind Charlie Brickley who scored 215 points and 23 touchdowns in the 1912-14 seasons...
...then, asleep in Winthrop House. At two a.m., I had left those best and most creative people, walked guiltily down the stairs between their files of eyes, walked across that dark yard past the reasonable student-government people who had stayed up to argue and to observe, walked more guiltily yet past the friendly University policeman on Quincy Street, walked home in the cold, past the Houses where slept the Great Uncommitted with whom I felt I had less in common than with those romantics, or even those radicals...
...improvised tables on sawhorses, manned by enthusiastic undergraduates and burdened with pamphlets and revolutionary literature. Students, many with the red strike symbol of a clenched fist silk-screened on their shirts, stood around in groups, arguing the issues, advancing theories as to the outcome. The trampled turf of the yard was littered with many of the 750,000 broadsides mimeographed by S.D.S. As one cynical grad student put it, "Getting the grass to grow again is more important than any of their demands...
...Deflating Balloon. There were lighter moments. Harvard Yard was twice the scene of a "Music and Light Show." Students projected cool blue and green images on a sheet hung in the archway of Sever Hall, to serve as backdrops for the sounds of two rock groups. Some students danced on the sidewalks. There was a whiff of pot in the air. A poster announced: "Truth is music is love and all of us together...