Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Louise and Adrian made the trek back up to the Yard with Louise saying hello to practically everyone they saw. By the time they got back up to their room, the phone was already jangling. After a few unnecessary rings, Louise picked...
From his position in the freshman dean's office, W.C. Burris Young has the best view of the goings on in the Yard in the last few decades. Young tells these stories about life in the 1960s, before and during the revolution...
Young likes to tell stories of the 1960s when street people used to make a profession of hanging out in the Yard. It seems that there was this one group of freshmen from Wiggles worth which was absolutely obsessed with street people. They simply loved to bring hoards of them in to their suite and shelter them...
...until the late 1960s, Young recalls, parietals ruled the Yard. Of course, parietals were supposed to be the bane of the existence of sexually permissive students. But someday a revisionist Harvard historian will no doubt put together a different story about parietals, one which would lead you to believe that parietals worked in favor of just what they were supposed to be discouraging. Young says, under the rules, women were allowed in the mens' rooms from four until seven p.m. on the weeknights and four until eight p.m. on the weekends. "If a guy and a girl were studying past...
...ascot and carry a briefcase of smoke thin cigarettes while huddles under the low ceiling at the Cafe Pamplona. Three years ago when Paco first blew into Cambridge from Southern California with its blistering fields and union speeches, he was all set to bring the workers' revolt to the Yard. Then he met his roommates--an obnoxious Jewish debater from the area who didn't know a thing about Cesar Chavez but knew Ralph Nader was gong to make Aermica safe for democracy, and a completely apolitical Indian chemistry major from Pennsylvania who liked to lift weights and root...