Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...change that dismayed Fogel was the resurgence of student protests this year. "I was brought up in Cambridge," he said. "I would occasionally walk through the Yard and see John Harvard and I felt I was walking on holy ground. When I saw thes people--they had hung an effigy and some vulgar banners on the statue--I thought it was desecration. I thought it was overdoing things...
...considerable degree, we looked beyond the Harvard Yard and the University. For example, at that time, the New Bedford textile strike was dragging on its wretched career. The struggles for a union became hopeless in those pre-Wagner Law days, and the lines of the hungry strikers' families lengthened from dark to dark. Not knowing what the hell we could do about it, we nevertheless used the blessed interval of Reading Period to drive down. The idea was to break through the dreary isolation of the deprived. We made speeches in an available auditorium, stayed a couple of days...
Since Lowell's house sat right at the edge of the Yard, I would catch fleeting glimpses of him. One July day I saw Lowell in vehement conversation near Widener11CrimsonLisa Hsia...
While approximately 500 alumni meandered around campus, they also encountered members of the United Front who were busy canvassing the Houses and the Yard, distributing information on the University's investment in companies operating in South Africa...
Yellow school buses whisked alumni to Kresge Hall at the Business School in the later afternoon to eat dinner and meet with President Bok before attending coffee hours later in the evening. Finally, talked out, they strolled back to their temporary living quarters at the Yard and River Houses...