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About Harvard Yard
Harvard Yard is a sight (Historic sites) in Cambridge. The address is 2 Kirkland St, 02138 Cambridge. Up-to-date information is available on its own website, and you can reach it by phone at +16174951573. Just around the corner: Clover HSQ (restaurant, 182 m) and Harvard University Botanical Museum (museum, 189 m).
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- Sight › Historic sites
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- Address
- 2 Kirkland St
02138 Cambridge, USA - Phone
- +16174951573
- Website
- www.harvard.edu
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- Coordinates
- 42.37437° N · -71.11670° E
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The center and oldest part of the Harvard campus. An enclosed grassy yard including picturesque buildings dating as far back as 1720. While somewhat architecturally uninspiring, the freshman undergraduate dorms are located in Harvard Yard, which means that a long list of famous intellectual and political figures have lived here. Near the center is a statue of John Harvard, for whom the university is named. Tour guides will tell you that students rub the statue's left foot for good luck before exams, and the foot is indeed rubbed shiny. But in reality, most of the rubbing is probably done by tourists rather than students. It is also school tradition of some secret societies at Harvard to pee on the boot of the foot, but this may also be a lie.
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