'Holiday' Returns to Harvard in Nostalgic Article by ex-Resident

Harvard, and more specifically Cambridge, has been revisited by Holiday. Joe McCarthy, a Cambridge resident in the twenties and thirties, returns to the scene in an article entitled "Cultured Cambridge" in the magazine's June issue.

McCarthy, returning after a 20-year absence, absent-mindedly rambles through the streets of the city, describing land-marks and relating anecdotes about Harvard, recalling the "good old days."

The author notes that the temporary seats in the Stadium, always filled in the past, have been dismantled and the cheerleaders no longer sport Crimson varsity athletic letters on their sweaters. The Gold Coast Porcellian Club and Max Keezer's used clothing store (now managed by Joe) were all part of the Cambridge scene in the twenties, McCarthy relates.

Local characters, including Crazy Mary, Jerry Walsh, and Scooper Doyle, termed by McCarthy as "Harvard Square students," were all part of his adolescent Cambridge days.

McCarthy explains his home town as "a town where a high-school youth had his choice on a Friday night between the movies and a free public lecture by T.S. Eliot or Robert Frost."