Word: yardings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every metropolitan newspaper in both New York and Boston played the Bingham statement big, with the accent on Harvard giving up "big-time" football. It would be difficult to think up a better way to keep capable football players out of the Yard. The mere statement that Harvard will "give up the big-time" is enough to send most athletic-minded scholars to Princeton and Yale...
Ulen is seeking entries for the 440 and 220-yard freestyle from a sextet composed of Lowell Sachnoff ('52 freshman captain), Doug Kinney, Yale Hill, Paul Tobias, Pete Bierre, and Norton Goddes. Norm Watkins and Bob Berke ('51 freshman captain) may also be called up from shorter races...
...sprints, backstroke, and diving, the Crimson is in wonderful shape. Captain Joe Fox, Watkins, Berke, Shep Brown Mort Hull, and Bob Tolf are all back for the 50 and 100 yard freestyle, and sophomore Bob Stroud may break into the lineup...
Since its birth the School had been located entirely north of the Charles, shaving "every week and cranny"-as Dean David puts if today-with the rest of the University. The library occupied part of the top floor of Widener, and classes and offices were sprinkled in Yard buildings, museums, the Unions basement, Lawrence Hall, and University Hall...
Davis explained that the grouping of bus-stops around the kiosk and near the Yard, now keeps the Coop block from becoming "one big loading platform." Merchants in that block had previously complained that the bus-stops discouraged customers with automobiles and blocked off the store fronts...