Word: yardings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yard Punch in Widener Quadrangle...
...Yard Punch in Widener Quadrangle...
...topic of the Summer School comes up during wintertime dinner table conversation at a Harvard House, the course the talk will take is fairly predicable. One student will moan about the hours he wasted at Yard punches, while a second will cut him off by reminiscing about "that girl from --" that he met at the self-same punches. A third, after throwing in a few comments about sunbathing on the banks of the Charles, will end the conversation with a conclusion running along the lines of "All in all, it's not a bad excuse for playing away the summer...
...most part, the Harvard students live off-campus in the summer--inhabiting apartments scattered over Greater Boston. Some do reside on-campus, but not in the Yard with the "summies." Instead, on-campus Harvard students stay in the Houses, enjoying, in some cases, the "Gin and Tonic Societies" which several Houses sponsor to satisfy the souls of House members standed in Cambridge during the summer...
...usual the eight weeks of intensive study will be alleviated by plays, tours concerts, lectures, dances, sports, and Wednesday afternoon punches in the shade of the Yard...