Summer in Harvard Yard

Visitors, families, and summer-school students bask during the sun-soaked dog days.

Summer-school students and visitors, including families, enjoy the shaded lawns of Harvard Yard. The chairs, first installed in 2009 as a project of the Steering Committee on Common Spaces, have transformed the Yard into a social gathering place.

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