Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) voted recently to allocate $43,000 for archaelogical investigations of construction sites adjacent to the route of the MBTA's Red Line extension, including a site uncovered last summer in Harvard Yard...
...Peabody Museum's Institute of Conservation Archaelogy (ICA) has received funds to analyze artifacts found in the Yard last August for information about the social and cultural environment of Cambridge in the 17th and 18th centuries...
...funding the studies, the MBTA is fulfilling a legal responsibility to make all attempts to preserve sites, including the Yard, listed in the National Register of Historical Places, Kim Davis, historian for the Massachusetts Historian Commission, said yesterday...
...didn't particularly care for that idea. This school, more than any other, wraps itself inside a vision of immortality, of the glory of knowledge eternal, rising with calm through the ages. There is a permanence to the walls, to the libraries, to the classic beauty of the Yard on a spring day, that mocks the passage of time. To descend into Widener in search of history is to forget that we will all be history soon enough, and be judged. This institution swallows up little men and women and tells them they will live forever, or at least that...
Kieley added because of Adams' "good food" and proximity to the Yard, it was necessary to limit the number of interhouse diners. Only 45 students from other houses may eat at Adams during each meal...