Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strange are the ways of fate, and recalling their time as roommates in their Currier House suite, the four heartily laugh together and vie to tell their own version of the various episodes through which their rooming group, unlike so many that annually crowd the Yard, has survived and flourished...
...protect participants from the elements--presumably from the sun, since legend has it that it never rains on Harvard's Commencement--grounds crews will raise 65 tents of various sizes in the yard, at the houses and the graduate schools, Dwyer says...
...weeks before graduation, the bare spots of the Yard are covered with $15,000 worth of a goopy green compound which looks like astro--turf ore waiting to be refined. According to Administrative Director of Operations Thomas E. Vautin, who assists in the organization, the compound is actually hydroseed--a mixture of grass seed, fertilizer, and pesticide. Though seeding is sufficient for most of the Yard and the houses, much-traveled spots like the lawn in front of Lamont Library require sod, which is more expensive, Vautin says...
...Yard takes the largest share of the chairs--30,000--including the 18,700 which will seat degree candidates and their guests in Tercentenary Theater, Dwyer says. Vying for the coveted seats are more than 22,000 ticket-holders who line up outside the gates of the Yard hours before the ceremony begins...
Television coverage has developed a long way from its beginnings as a contingency for bad weather. In addition to the Science Center links, this year HVS is installing screens in Wadsworth House, Fay House at Radcliffe Yard, and the alumni information center, so latecomers seeking directions to Tercentenary Theater can see how much they have missed...