GEOGRAPHY OF HARVARD PUZZLES TYROS

On paper Harvard University looks like a snap to navigate. Actually the office buildings, stores, and fruit stands which press about the University make the problem no cinch for the tyro who cannot distinguish between the Cambridge Trust Company and Holyoke House.

Like Gaul, the domain of Harvard is divided into three parts. In the center is the Yard, birthplace of Harvard, which now contains Freshman dormitories and College classrooms. To the north, across Cambridge Street, stretches the empire of the graduate schools and laboratories. On the south side of Massachusetts Avenue are the lairs of upperclassmen, reaching down to the Charles River, across which stand the Business School and Stadium.

Of special interest to Yardlings in these three areas are the following buildings and athletic facilities:

The Yard

In the center of the Yard, Harvard's "campus," is University Hall, administrative headquarters of the University Some offices, however, including President Conant's, have this year been moved to Massachusetts Hall.

Dominating the southern end of the quadrangle is massive Widener Library, third largest in the United States. Facing it at the north end is the Memorial Church, built in remembrance of Harvard's dead in the World War. In the southwest corner stands Lehman Hall, headquarters of Colonel Charles Apted, chief of the University's G-Men, and of the University bill-collectors.

Across Quincy Street from the Yard is the Union, which houses the Freshman dining halls and libraries as well as the offices of the Harvard Athletic Association, where' tickets for football games are sold. To the rear of the Union is Warren House, where English A themes are turned in. Just to the north and also on Quincy Street is the Fogg Art Museum.

Other buildings in the Yard beside the Freshman dormitories are the President's House, Emerson, Sever, and Harvard Halls, Phillips Brooks House, Robinson Hall, Robinson Annex, and Wadsworth Hall.

Northern Sector

To the north of the Yard are the towering Memorial Hall, where Harvard men once ate, now register and take exams; and the New Lecture Hall, now no longer new.

Behind the new Littauer School of Public Administration are the Law School buildings, and the new Hemenway Gymnasium. On Oxford Street, beyond the New Lecture Hall, are the Mallinckrodt Chemical Laboratories.

On Divinity Avenue is the University Museum, home of the famed glass flowers.

Southern Sector

South of Massachusetts Avenue lies the realm of upperclassmen, the land of Houses, clubs, and tailoring establishments. On Holyoke Street, south of the Hygiene Building, is the Indoor Athletic Building. At the foot of Boylston Street, near the Cambridge end of the Lars Anderson Bridge, is the Weld Boat Club, home of single scullers. On Massachusetts Avenue are Holyoke and Little Halls.

Across the Charles River is the Business School. Here also, in the shadow of the Stadium, are the Dilion Field House, and the Carey and Briggs Cages. Nearby are tennis courts, soccer, football, baseball, and lacrosse fields, and the Newell Boat House.

Of interest to Freshmen and shown on this map are the Cambridge Post-Office, on Brattle Square; and Radcliffe, Harvard's sister college, which lies off to the northeast, beyond the Law School.

On Mt. Auburn Street, about half a mile up the Charles River from Harvard Square, is Stillman Infirmary.