HARVARD TOPOGRAPHY BAFFLES 1946

Although Harvard University extends from Shanghai, China, to the Union of South Africa, the part that interests Freshmen is mainly centered in Cambridge. But even that comparatively restricted area presents difficulties to the newcomer, who is expected to know the whereabouts of the various buildings from the moment he arrives.

Like Gaul, all Harvard is divided into three parts, of which the Yard is the oldest and most fraught with ivy and tradition. Formerly the domain of the Freshman, the Yard will be occupied this summer by a large naval contingent and an equally numerous group of special summer school students. 1946 will inhabit the Houses, formerly reserved only for upperclassmen.

North of the Yard, which also includes college administrative offices and most of the college classrooms, are several graduate schools, laboratories, and museums. Stretching to the South, down to the Charles, are the seven Houses, while across the river are the Business School, tennis courts, soccer field, and Soldiers Field.

Especially interesting to incoming Freshmen are the following buildings, which may be located on the map above:

The Yard

University Hall, in the center of the Yard, houses most of the administrative offices of the College, although some of them have been recently moved to Massachusetts Hall, the oldest building now standing in the College.

Widener Library, containing the largest collection of books in any university in the world, forms the southern side of the New Quadrangle. Beside it is Boylston Hall, which houses the library of the departments of History, Government, and Economics. Facing Widener is Memorial Church built in remembrance of Harvard dead in the first World War.

Across Quincy street from the Yard is the Harvard Union, former center of Freshman activities and Yardling refectory, which still contains the offices of the Harvard Athletic Association, where tickets to sports events are sold. To the North is Warren House, headquarters for English A, while farther up on Quincy street is the Fogg Art Museum, which has been said to have the finest collection of art in any American college.

Other buildings in the Yard of importance to Freshman are Phillips Brooks House, Lehman Hall, President's House (now Navy headquarters), Sever Hall, and Emerson Hall.

Situated between Widener and Quincy street, is the Yard's newest building, the Houghton Rare Book Library.

Northern Sector

To the North of the Yard are the towering Memorial Hall, dear to the hearts of Harvard men as the place where they register and take examinations, and the New Lecture Hall, which is old enough to vote.

The big white building which may be seen from the subway "pillbox" to the North is Littauer Center, home of the School of Public Administration. Behind it are the Law School and the new Hemenway Gymnasium. On Oxford street, beyond the New Lecture Hall, are the Mallinkrodt Chemical Laboratories, and further on still is the University Museum, which houses the famed glass flower collection.

Southern Sector

Scattered among seven Houses are several buildings of importance to 1946. The Indoor Athletic Building, between Holyoke and Dunster streets, is the center of all indoor athletic activity. That is where you must go for your swimming test. North of it is the Hygiene Building, with a small staff of doctors to care for minor ailments. On Linden street are the University Squash Courts, while facing the Yard on Massachusetts Avenue are Little and Holyoke Halls.

Forming a compact group along the river are Eliot House, Kirkland House, Winthrop House, Lowell House, and Leverett House. Dunster House and Adams House are somewhat separated from the rest, as well as Dudley Hall, the commuter's center, which is on Dunster street. Weld Boathouse is on the river right by Eliot House.

Across the Charles River is the Business School. Here also in the shadow of the stadium, are the Dillon Field House, and the Carey and Briggs Cages. Nearby are tennis courts, soccer, football, lacrosse, and baseball fields, as well as the Field Artillery Stables and Newell Boat House.

Some of the buildings shown on this map which are not part of Harvard proper but which are of interest to Freshmen and summer school students, include the Cambridge Post Office, in Brattle Square, the Harvard Cooperative Society. In Harvard Square, numerous churches of various denominations, and Radcliffe. Harvard's sister college, whose dormitories lie off to the northwest, beyond the law school, but whose main buildings are South of the Common.

On Mount Auburn street, about half a mile up the river from Harvard Square, is Stillman Infirmary. On Concord Avenue, near the Radcliffe dormitories, is the Astronomical Observatory, and across Garden street from the Observatory is the Gray Herbarium. In Boston, off the map, are the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, and Public Health