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...effort, “the last-minute change to the tennis competition and unfair multiplier that puts bigger dorms at a disadvantage” has resulted in “mortal combat” with rival Apley Hall. According to the Frosh IM Web site, individual events within the Yard Bucket Competition are weighted according to a normalized scale from one to four based on the actual number of people in the dorm. Thus Canaday, the largest dorm, is multiplied by one. In an e-mail sent Tuesday, the freshman IM coordinators announced a change in format because...
...swing beckons us to Yardfest in a more complex way than the food monopoly and in a more subtle way than the rap stars. One can imagine Yardfest without the dining services’ cornucopia, without the spectacle of saccharine country and ironic rap and perhaps without even the Yard itself. But Yardfest without a tire swing? Impossible—what would go on the posters...
...love a good rage-fest as much as the next guy, but Yardfest is more about a laid-back, relaxing evening to enjoy good music, good food, and good company underneath the budding tree canopy of Tercentenary Theater. What could be more quintessentially collegiate than relaxing in the Yard while listening to a guitar-wielding crooner...
...Even when he had to deal with the negative aspects of someone’s experience in the Yard, he always did it with an open mind,” Mackay-Smith said. “He wasn’t just dealing with today’s incident. He was dealing with today’s incident as part of a four-year career...
...originally built as a dormitory for students at the College and was funded by a grant of ?3,500 by the Province of Massachusetts in 1718. During the Revolutionary War, soldiers of the Continental Army were billeted in this small but cozy building in the heart of Harvard Yard. Legend has it they melted down the doorknobs in order to make ammunition, and they certainly were not the ideal houseguests. But their humble abode still stands, the oldest building at Harvard and the second-oldest academic building in the country (behind the Christopher Wren building at the College of William...