Yard's Renovation Enters Phase Two With Straus Quad

Straus residents and friends will walk a straighter line with the June 1 renovation of the Straus-Matthews-Mass Hall quad.

A bulldozer presently working on the site will halt corner-cutting strollers by digging up Matthews' two walks and the Yard's double diagonal paths, in favor of a single diagonal path from the Matthews-Mass Hall corner to the middle of Straus Hall. The path then will join a shrub-lined terrace in front of Straus Hall and will extend to the nearby Harvard Square entrance.

Diane McGuire, landscape architect of the University, yesterday called the Yard renovation "stage two" of a Yard upgrading project by the Green Committee--an amorphous group of students, administrators, professors and Cambridge residents.