Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sunrise on the morning of his first exam, the sloth finally lifted himself from his chair and began to stumble northward toward Harvard Yard. He arrived there on time, but misread the location for Physics 907 on the exam schedule, unwittingly plopping himself down in the exam room for Adolescent Psych. Before a proctor could hand him a copy of the exam, the sloth was furiously scribbling quadratic equations into his blue book. But soon he lost patience, and digressed to a metaphysical discussion of his sexual malaise and acne problems...
...whole, rather than retaining the current system at the Quad. The report termed four class Houses "the ideal but least feasible alternative" (1.4-8a), and keeping our freshmen scarcely requires "construction and rearrangement of the campus." Why is it that uniformity outweighs all other factors? Would the Yard freshmen complain about missing "the mix of classes (which) would be very positive" (1.4-8s)? Perhaps the fear is that upperclassmen complain about having freshmen underfoot. But sophomores wanting to move do this because it is a 'legitimate' reason in Harvard's eyes, whereas irrational prejudice and a dislike...
...Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn swam for shore in "The African Queen" last Friday night in Science Center B, moviegoers were told to exit only through the Yard doors and to watch out for broken glass...
...really live within it." One must wonder where the task force members were last year when all the discussions about their revelation took place. One thing became very clear from that discussion: the so-called 1-1-2 plan, with freshmen living in the Quad, sophomores in the Yard, and juniors and seniors in the River Houses, had few supporters and had a monkey-wrench effect on the discussion. Most of the discussants spent so much of their time and energy trying to kill this plan that it diverted them from drawing up constructive recommendations. Now, totally blind to that...
...Office of the Arts, housed in the old Radcliffe Yard is funded jointly by Harvard and Radcliffe. Radcliffe created the office and originally funded it alone...