<p>" It is a pretty long walk from Harvard Yard (if you miss the shuttle ). "</p>
<p>Hmm. Sounds like the students now are wimps. 
Back in my day, when I lived in what’s now called North House in the Quad, there was NO shuttle. </p>
<p>There also was no shuttle from Mather House, where I lived as a junior and senior (was among the first group of women to live there). I didn’t realize what a long, long walk it was to class until I went there 15 years later with my H, parked near Mather and then walked to the yard. It was summer, and it was a loooong walk. </p>
<p>I remember walking from Mather to my job at the Quad in the dead of winter. </p>
<p>With all of the walking that I did at Harvard, I’m surprised that I managed to gain the freshmen 15.</p>