Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of '86 to entertain their friends. There has been a very noticeable tendency in past years to convert this day into a general holiday for the public of all classes of Cambridge and Boston. That the many objectionable characters who have thronged the yard on Class Day evening should not be allowed among our relatives and friends, needs of course only to be asserted...
Yesterday evening the freshman class mustered in front of Beck, and preceded by a band of twenty pieces marched down Harvard street to the yard, where a pyrotechnic display of much variety and substance took place amid the vociferous cheering of the '89 enthusiasts. The line of march was then taken up and cheered on by the triumphant strains of "Yale Men Say," and "Marching Through Georgia," the freshman made the walls of the old dormitories echo and re-echo with the sound of their prolonged "rah's." Transparencies bearing the names of the freshman nine and trenchant sarcasm upon...
...Class Day Committee ask attention to the following rules for the distribution of class day tickets: Tickets will be sold at 14 Matthews, June 16th, from 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., and on June 18th, from 2.30 to 5 p.m. Packages (15 yard, 10 Memorial, 7 Tree, and 4 Sanders tickets) to be selected by lot, will be sold to members of the senior class at $11 a package. Each yard ticket will admit a gentleman and two ladies. In the notice published June 4th, the price of packages for members of the graduating classes in the Law and Medical...
Attention is called to the fact that ball playing in the yard is against the regulations. Several men have learnt this to their sorrow of late...
...time draws near when the rooms of the undergraduates in the yard are to be given up to senior spreads. The undergraduates have for three years spent time and care adorning these private castles. The daily care of the "goodies" has crowned the efforts of the occupants. They are obliged to leave them to the mercies of Class Day crowds. When they come back to them in the fall, the complaints are frequent in regard to the state in which their rooms are left. It seems absurd to have to speak upon such a subject, but if the temporary occupants...