Word: yardings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boylston tradition of creative rather than scholastic talent as exemplified by the last two holders of the chair: Poet Robert S. Hillyer and Poet Theodore Spencer, who died in January. He will receive upward of $10,000 a year, plus the legendary right to pasture a cow in Harvard Yard. To MacLeish, the job will mean one more turn to a career that has already covered a catalogue of callings, ranging from gentleman-farmer and journalist (FORTUNE, 1930-38) to Librarian of Congress (1939-44), Assistant Secretary of State (1944-45) and deputy chairman of the U.S. delegation to UNESCO...
...same hilltop every evening to sing; they play jokes, trick other animals, imitate the sounds they hear, and they learn man's ways with incredible rapidity. Fences cannot keep these sly relations of the dog and the wolf out of a sheep range or a chicken yard: some Southwest natives believe that they talk to the fences and the fences open up and let them through. Barbed-wire fences had some trouble understanding them at first but are now responsive...
...first since the war, 84 students have not been assigned to rooms but have been placed on a waiting list. This has been set up so that the Class of 1953 can all live together in the Yard, rather than be scattered through Apley, Claverly, Dudley, and Wigglesworth...
...record crowd heard the Glee Club on Tuesday evening in the first of the Club's annual series of Yard Concerts. The air was raw; more people than usual remained standing, wandering about the grass in an effort to keep warm. But the men on the steps of Widener held the attentions of all for a half-hour of informal song...
Under this proposed Constitution members of the Union Committee would be elected from dormitory units. At present the body is selected by the Dean's office in cooperation with Yard proctors. Candidate nominations for the elected committee would be made by student after a series of proctor-conducted meetings during the first four weeks of the fall term. Thus the entire success of these elections would depend on the work of the proctors and the interest of the students in each entry. The elective plan would give freshmen control of their own affairs, plus representation on the Council...