Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee includes everyone - goodies, janitor's assistants, etc., who deserve a ticket on account of any services rendered. No one is forgotten, and every man who gives away a ticket aids in destroying the character of Class Day. Last year a goody was overheard boasting that she had twenty yard tickets. She had gone to each man in her entry and asked for "just one for herself." Tradesmen's clerks about Harvard Square employ the same tactics. No word of reproof is needed in regard to such carelessness...
Your committee is powerless except as it is supported by public sentiment, which ought to be heard distinctly on this question. There is no excuse for giving away a single yard ticket to any one whom you would not be willing to introduce to your friends...
...uniform stand at the entrances to exclude the unauthorized from entering. It is the members of the college who are responsible for what follows. Many heedless men give away class-day tickets as convenient fees to their waiters, or their barber, or their goody. These people throng the yard and pass by unchallenged, for their ticket authorizes them to go through. For men of this stamp to bring companions in with them is only of too frequent occurrence. There is no need of remarking about the kind of women who are permitted to be present in the yard...
Last year saw a brilliant class day. There were all the illuminations, band playing and singing that one could desire, yet a spectator, standing on the steps of University Hall could perceive hundreds of men, in no way connected with the college, joining in the endless promenade around the yard; and the coarse laughter of these men and their female companions was so out of harmony with the time and place as to destroy half the illusion, and make the whole affair seem like one huge base-ball celebration open to the whole of Cambridge and Boston. We speak very...
...been given this year, and few celebrations of former years have surpassed it in the number of the fire-works displayed and excellence of the music furnished by the brass band. For once, the Conference Committee was not obliged to exert its energies in extinguishing bon fires in the yard, but could gaze with satisfaction at the glare of the huge fire on Jarvis. This is the third celebration which '89 has provided this spring, and now that she seems to understand the business thoroughly, there is still another chance in a few weeks at New London. It now remains...