New Landscaper Asks for Greening Of Harvard Yard

Springtime frisbee throwers will no longer have to flee police in the Yard, if Harvard's new landscape architect has her way.

"We're moving toward a more durable, permanent grass in the Yard," Diane McGuire said yesterday. Once it's established, there will be no need for the annual spring banishment of lovers and frisbee players from the grassy areas of the Yard.

McGuire said she sees her joke as one of sculpting a natural contrast to the urban environment.

"A place like Quincy House is an enjoyable break from the more cosmopolitan scene outside," she said. "We need less brick and more green."

A graduate of Berkeley, McGuire came to the Radcliffe Institute in the early sixties, Former Radcliffe President Mary I. Bunting appointed her landscape architect for the College, and she has held that post for the last five years.

"I found that the students were very concerned with, and considerate of, the experiments in landscaping going on there," she said. "We had no instances of vandalism at all."