Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attention has been called recently to the frequency with which the posters announcing the different base-ball games disappear from the college yard. This was especially noticeable with regard to the Harvard-Yale freshman game, but the practice of "ragging" 'varsity signs among the students at large is just as rife. The rapidity with which they disappear from the bulletin boards in University and in Memorial is truly amazing. The different athletic teams rely principally upon the posters for the publication of their games, and undergraduates ought to remember that a sign which goes no one knows where in five...
...cannot see that any harm will ensue from having bonfires in the yard upon great, occasions, yet can the college afford to make a universal principle of such action; for who shall say when the occasion warrants more than the usual firework display? Shall it be left to the judgment of the excited victors, or shall our noble conference committee post a bulletin to the effect that "If Harvard wins to-day the victory will be worthy of a huge bonfire." Yet we are undergraduates but once, and let us celebrate while we may. Surely the freshmen on Wednesday night...
Whereas the faculty of Harvard College has delegated the maintenance of order in the college yard...
Resolved, That we, the students in mass-meeting assembled, do accept this trust in full appreciation of its meaning, and devote to use our influence to suppress disturbances of all kinds in the college yard...
Resolved, That while we would not discourage proper and enthusiastic celebrations of athletic victories, we do condemn the building of bonfires in the yard, and the continuance of noisy celebrations beyond a reasonable hour...