Word: yards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There are too many of 'em, and too many of one kind," wrote James Russell Lowell about the Yard elms in a letter to President Hill on December 8, 1863. The history of the elms in the yard goes back 120 years, when it was decided to beautify the College grounds...
...Captain Charlie Hutter ranks No. 2 in the 50-yard free-style, the same in the 100-yard event, and No. 4 in the 220 free-style, and participated in Harvard's third ranking 400-yard free-style relay team...
Frank Coleman '38 earned No. 10 place in the 440 free-style and No. 8 in the 1500-meters free-style, while Dario Berizzi was ranked seventh in the 200-yard breastroke. This year's captain, Rusty Greenhood, is the nation's eighth best diver according to the ratings, although there is a discrepancy here, for Yale's Endweiss is rated No. 7. Greenhood and Endweiss met nine times last year and Greenhood won seven...
Graham Cummin '38 is placed No. 3 in the 150 backstroke. Both he and Berizzi also were members of the second ranking 300 yard medley team. Harley Stowell, back this year, was the fourth member of the 400 relay team...
...only fair to warn all men to beware of the long, shiny things hanging from the roofs of the classroom buildings. Harvard Hall has the undisputed blue-ribbon icicle of the Yard. It measures a good three feet from tip to tip, and tapers from a saucer-like beginning down to a needle-sharp nonentity. At precisely the stroke of eleven o'clock this morning, a neighbor of this glistening giant gave one sickening shudder and came crashing earthward among the terrified students of "Shakespeare complete" as they elbowed their way into the Hall. Pale, twitching faces gratefully expressed...