Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to express my enthusiasm for the new program of having 260 upperclassmen advisors for freshmen in the Yard. I think it's wonderful that Harvard finally has a formal setting for freshmen to get advice from other students...
Only a few short years ago, some 400 unfortunate students not assigned to live in the Yard had to rely for advice on the haphazard collection of sophmores, juniors and seniors with whom they lived, who represented a variety of fields and a host of different approaches to the "Harvard experience." Freshmen had to contend with a torrent of unsolicited advice in late-night bull sessions in the hallways, over football matches and at meals taken in a common dining facility. At the time, many of us wrongly believed that there was some benefit to freshmen from being routinely associated...
...however, we see the obvious wisdom of the new program, in which freshmen never have to leave the Yard except for classes, and in which each freshman, along with five or six of his or her peers, will be assigned to an upperclass adviser. No longer will freshmen be confronted by a confusing diversity of opinions about which concentrations, classes, instructors, and extra curricular activities are most interesting, fun, and profitable--each will get one straight story from his or her assigned adviser...
While crossing the Yard one night during freshmen orientation week, I heard rhythmic chanting emanating from a group of freshmen across the Yard. Because of the breeze and the distance between us, I could not discern the words and yet something about that melody of monotones and its degenerate animalistic qualities struck a responsive chord deep within me. Where had I heard this droning before? The beastly grunts and yells had a tribal sound like that of a rain dance or perhaps a war dance. The blood in my veins got hot. Did evolution inscribe this primitive melody and rhythym...
Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, and Dean Fox watched the demonstration from across the Yard. Both said their primary concern was that classes not be disturbed...