Old school New England 92 - Scanorama

Harvard University, with its ivydraped
buildings, privileged
students, and more cash than
any other university in America, is
spread across Boston and Cambridge,
the two cities facing each other over the
Charles River. But it’s in Cambridge,
by Harvard Square, where you fi nd its
roots. For a crash course in university
life take a stroll through the gates of
Harvard Yard, the oldest part of campus.
Here libraries, dormitories, classrooms,
PERFECT HARVARD
and the president’s offi ce surround a
lush lawn shadowed by old American
elms, oaks, and honey locusts. This is
where – with a little luck in the housing
lottery – freshmen live.
Come here on a snowy night and catch
wired law students sledding down the
steps of the Widener Library on trays
borrowed from the canteen. Or wait for
a spring day when bright-eyed English
majors exit a Marjorie Garber lecture to
take up with Beowolf on the lawn.
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