Harvard

 I first visited the Harvard Yard a million years ago, when I was a junior in high school.  There was graffiti and trash everywhere.  Horns honked and motorcycles revved their engines loudly in nearby Harvard Square.  Students trudged past, alone and with unhappy blank looks.  I decided to go elsewhere.

Maybe because it is summer and the students aren't yet back, but the campus seems calmer and cleaner.

Widener Library has a few students sitting on the wide steps.

John Harvard looks stern, as always.

I always thought this huge building was a church.  It was called Memorial Hall then and is Annenberg Hall now.  The biggest use is a huge freshman dining hall.  Who would have guessed?

Langdell Hall is the law school's library, but visitors can't get inside.

Austin Hall houses many law school classes.  It is a handsome Richardsonian Romanesque building that masks the terror law students feel in the seminar halls as they fear being called upon.