Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wolf has an advantage in the backstroke because last year's Olympic silver medalist in the 100 and 200-yard backstroke events, Berkeley's Peter Roccam will not be able to compete because of mononucleosis...
...REALITIES of Cambridge geography have not been kind to Harvard. The half mile of asphalt and brownstones separating the Quad and the Yard seemed insignificant enough when coed housing and other integrating moves were made. But it was big enough to produce one of the first campus issues of recent years to arouse more than a dinner conversation--the chronic housing problem...
...perhaps as far back as the inception of co-educational classes in 1943. The Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life has debated it for five years. The suggestions that float around have ranged from the mundane to the absurd. Some have proposed housing all sophomores in the Yard, and all freshmen in the Quad (or the reverse) and switching the River Houses into two-class residences. Others suggested converting to four-class housing University-wide by refurbishing the Yard into three Houses. Quad people have pointed out that with a major construction effort the Quadrangle would achieve rough parity with...
...plan; it will probably stay academic until the plan comes up for review again in 1982. The plan, which Dean Fox, an assistant to Rosovsky, publicly proposed in January, ended four year housing at the Quad by moving to house all of next year's freshmen in the Yard. In addition, Rosovsky ordered the construction of an addition to the South House dining hall, new tutor and student suites in North House, the transfer of the Social Studies Department to Hilles, and numerous other minor Quad improvements...
...tailor-made to lessen the Quad's attractiveness. Four-year housing, for one, has long been seen as one of the Quad's strong points. Quad freshmen, in contact with more mature and experienced upperclassmen, benefit from a network of course and personal advising superior to that of the Yard. For their part, upperclassmen at the Quadrangle enjoyed the vitality that freshmen bring to hall life...