ABSTRACT
Some universities have their towers, domes, monuments, lawns, quadrangles, columns, or other distinctive features. Harvard, the oldest of the great U.S. universities, has the Yard. Five-sided but almost a square, the Yard is bounded on two sides by Massachusetts Avenue, where it makes a right turn to go north to New Hampshire. On the other three sides, Cambridge, Broadway, and Quincy Streets hold the Yard in their embrace. In the early 1930s, the Yard contained some 100 acres and more than thirty buildings, including living quarters, libraries, lecture halls, offices, and classrooms.
