Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thousand six hundred seventeen freshmen--concentrated in an over-crowded Yard and boasting the lowest male-female ratio in Harvard Radcliffe history--will descend upon Memorial Hall today to affirm their status as paid-in-full undergraduates...
This is the first year in which freshmen will live exclusively in the Yard. This weekend, the now upperclass-only Radcliffe Quadrangle was bereft of stationwagons containing freshmen's belongings...
...Quad was bereft of entering freshmen, the Yard was hopping with activity. Although the ratio of men to women remains out of balance--albeit at a better-than-ever 1.89:1--the ratio of frisbees to prospective registrants there yesterday seemed to approach...
...Yard always looks pretty much the same. When it's nice out, you can see things with remarkable clarity--from a window in Holworthy you can pick out people frolicking in front of Matthews, and the sound of stereos blaring out of windows rattles the sills far into the night. Saturday night was that kind of evening, but it was special because it was the first big night of Freshman Week, that unavoidable whirl of partying, anticipation and one-upsmanship that is somehow an appropriate introduction to the strange little world that is Harvard...
Several things distinguish the class of 1981, which arrived in force Friday and Saturday, from its predecessors. Perhaps the most important change is that the entire class is housed in the Yard. In the interest of more normalized relations between the sexes, the Class of '81 boasts the best male-female ratio in the history of the University: 1.87-to-1. Finally, 80 per cent of this year's crop of future leaders have already declared themselves either pre-law or pre-med, according to the Freshman Dean's Office, a statistic that boggles the minds of those who believe...