How to Foot the Elfin Paths Calmly and With No Compass Widener, Wadsworth, Weld . . . Winter Treks Made Easier with Map

Map in hand, almost anyone ought to be able to find his way around Harvard Square. Cambridge, like Boston, was founded on cowpaths, as the saying goes, and if cows could do it, you probably don't need a map at all.

Like Gaul?

Like Gaul, Harvard is divided three ways, into the graduate schools and laboratories, the Yard (not campus, please), and the Houses. The Yard, birthplace of the College, lies between Cambridge Street and Massachusetts Avenue and contains what are called Freshman halls, the bulk of the classrooms, and administration buildings.

To the north is the graduates' empire, to the south are the lairs of the upperclassmen, and across the river the Business School, the Stadium, and athletic fields.

Of special interest to incoming students in those three areas are the following: in the center of the Yard is University Hall, administrative headquarters of the University. Some offices, however, including President Conant's, are in Massachusetts Hall, while the veterans' headquarters and several other units are in Weld.

Largest in the Land

Dominating the southern end of the quadrangle is the massive Widener Library, largest university library in the United States. Facing it at the north end is the Memorial Church, built in remembrance of Harvard's dead in World War I. In the southwest corner stands Lehman Hall, headquarters of the Superintendent of caretakers and of University bill collectors.

Across Quincy Street is the Union, dining hall to aeons of Freshmen, as well as the offices of the Harvard Athletic Association, where tickets for football games and other tests of skill are obtained. English A students will have many occasions to visit Warren House to the rear of the Union. Northward on Quincy Street is the Fogg Art Museum.

On the way to the Union stands the President's House. Emerson, Sever, and Boylston Halls are used for classes, Robinson and Hunt Halls contain the School of Design. Other important buildings are Phillips Brooks House and Wadsworth House.

North of Yard

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

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

South of Massachusetts Avenue lies the realm of upperclassmen, 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.

Ice Floes

Across the Charles 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, baseball, and lacrosse fields, and the Newall Beat House.

Radcliffe and Stillman Infirmary, from which healthy little Harvardmen steer clear, are off to the left, or West.

Latest Improvements

Built since this map was drawn is Houghton Library, home of the University's rare book collection. It is near Widener, connected to it by a second-story passageway.

In the last year, several now buildings have sprung up, among them temporary housing developments on the sites of Jarvis and Divinity Field Tennis Courts and in the bond of the Charles next to the Business School's McCulloch Hall.

Perhaps the most important building move, however, has been the erection of Vanserg Hall, just east of the Biological Laboratories, near Francis Street. This structure, named after the famed contributor of the first dollar of Harvard's endowment, contains offices of the Veterans' Administration, Naval Science department, and Electronic Research laboratories, and also a Graduates' dining hall.

Another insignificant omission from the map pictured above is the new home of the Harvard CRIMSON, leading undergraduate daily. This building, built in the spring of 1915, stands just north of Adams House, near the corner of Plympton Street and Massachusetts Avenue.

For children, there is a new nursery, too. It stands in a hitherto vacant lot between Francis Street and Divinity Avenue, facing Kirkland Street. And to house the IBM calculator presented to the University there is a now but on Jarvis Street.