Information AboutHarvard Yard |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT HARVARD YARD | |
| harvard university | |
|
Harvard Yard is a grassy area of about 25 acres (0.1 km&2), adjacent to Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts , which constitutes the oldest part and the center of the campus of Harvard University . It contains 13 of Harvard College's seventeen Freshman Dormitories , as well as four libraries, four buildings of classrooms and academic departments, and the central administrative offices of the Faculty Of Arts And Sciences and the university, located in University Hall and Massachusetts Hall , respectively. The western third of Harvard Yard is known as the Old Yard, and around it cluster most of the freshman dormitories. Among these is Massachusetts Hall, which, having been constructed in 1720, is the oldest still-standing building on Harvard's campus and oldest academic building in the United States. (Wren Hall at College Of William And Mary is occasionally cited as the oldest; however, it was rebuilt several times after fire, the latest reconstruction occurring in 1865.) The lower floors of Massachusetts Hall house the offices of the President Of Harvard University . shown above. Moreover, Harvard students traditionally Urinate on one of the statue's feet. {Link without Title} [http://www.mech.uwa.edu.au/~kamy/Harvard%20University%20.htm [http://www.harvardindependent.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleID=7650][http://www.allsoulschurch.org/parishnotes/SG%20dec%2005%20internet.pdf][http://welcome-to-trashcanistan.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_welcome-to-trashcanistan_archive.html][http://www.stalcommpol.org/huplogs/20040914.pdf] is the very foot that tourists rub for good luck. ] Across the Old Yard from Massachusetts Hall stands University Hall, and the now-famous "statue of three lies" of John Harvard . The statue earned its nickname from its inscription, "John Harvard, Founder, 1638". In truth, the statue is not modelled after John Harvard, Mr. Harvard did not found the university, and the founding was in 1636. University Hall was the site of the now-famous sit-in and teach-in protests during the late 1960s, while Massachusetts Hall was the site of the more recent 2001 living-wage campaign sit-in. OTHER BUILDINGS The center of Harvard Yard is a wide grassy area known as Tercentenary Theater, framed by the monumental Widener Library and Memorial Church . Harvard's annual Commencement exercises, as well as occasional special convocations, take place in Tercentenary Theater. The libraries located in Harvard Yard are Widener Library , its connected Pusey Library annex, Houghton Library for rare books and manuscripts, and Lamont Library , one of the undergraduate libraries. Classroom and departmental buildings include Emerson Hall , Sever Hall , Robinson Hall , and Boylston Hall . The freshman dormitories of Harvard Yard include the upper levels of Massachusetts Hall , and Wigglesworth Hall , Weld Hall , Grays Hall , Matthews Hall , Straus Hall , Mower Hall , Hollis Hall , Stoughton Hall , Lionel Hall , Holworthy Hall , Canaday Hall , and Thayer Hall . Nestled among Mower, Hollis, Lionel, and Stoughton Halls is the Holden Chapel, home of the Holden Choruses . Also in this section of the yard stands the Phillips Brooks House , home of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), Harvard University's center for service activities. At the southwest corner of the Yard is Lehman Hall , or Dudley House , the administrative unit for non-resident and off-campus students. Finally, Loeb House sits on the east side; it is the site of Harvard's governing bodies, the Harvard Corporation and the Board Of Overseers . TRIVIA Harvard Yard is featured in a famous sentence that is used to illustrate that the Boston Accent is Non-rhotic (i.e., the sound ''r'' is dropped before consonants): "Park the car in Harvard Yard," which can sound like "pahk the cah in hahvud yahd" or "pak the caa in havid yad" (depending on what part of Boston, and what social class, the speaker comes from). However, motorists are not allowed to park in Harvard Yard, except for move-in-day for freshmen living in Harvard Yard, and for services at Memorial Church—and then only for people with mobility problems . REFERENCES AND EXTERNAL LINKS |
|
|