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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cracked Harvardman Stuart Chase, Class of 1910: "Most of them ask nothing better than a return to the good old days. . . . One is tempted to ask why we should not settle down to the football of our forefathers, with goal posts on the zero yard line, five yards for a first down, and no forward passes...
...learned to expect from British historical studies: smart writing, fine playing, meticulous setting and casting, an august reverence for Empire. U. S. audiences, whether they have read English history or not, will have some idea of it after they have seen John Knox (John Laurie) preaching in Whitehall Palace yard; Edward Seymour (Felix Aylmer) passing sentence on his brother Thomas (Leslie Perrins) ; the pompous details of a 16th Century beheading...
...many respects the Union, situated on Quiney Street just outside of the Yard, is the social center of first-year life. Under one roof are the dining hall, common rooms, game rooms, and two libraries, one containing a fine collection of books for general reading, the other books required in History 1 and Government 1, two of the larger Freshman courses. It is in the Union that most of the social events of the Freshman year take place: tea dances after one or more of the football games in the fall, smokers, with vaudeville or other entertainment, the Freshman Jubilee...
When the Houses went into operation the center of Harvard life for the upper-classmen shifted unmistakably from the Yard to the region beside the Charles. Five of the Houses, Eliot, Kirkland, Lowell, Winthrop and Leverett, are grouped fairly close together in one section, while Dunster is located farther down the river and Adams on the old Gold Coast on Mt. Auburn Street. Between the Yard and the Houses, in the vicinity of Mt. Auburn Street, are located also the New Athletic Building, most of the clubs and the officers of the CRIMSON, Lampoon and Advocate...
...Freshman is free, comparatively. He has no field of concentration and his courses can and should be chosen in three or four different fields. In his first year he must explore and see what suits him best. He lives in the Yard and eats together with his whole class in the Union; classmates can be judged and friends picked in this atmosphere. Freshman athletics are not as intensely run as sport for upperclassmen...