Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...quarter of eight yesterday morning, his room was filled of gas, and to ascertain whether it was genuine gas or not, he struck a match, thereby having his doubts very quickly satisfied. The result of the experiment was an explosion so heavy as to be felt all over the yard. The windows of the room were, violently blown out over the sidewalk, the door was partly blown open, the ceiling was sprung, and the wall on the entry displaced about six inches, and about 20 feet of plastering so damaged as to have to be torn down immediately...
...constantly on the alert to prevent just such accidents as the one of yesterday morning. A very little carelessness on the part of one man may bring terrible results upon a score of his fellow undergraduates. A student rooming in one of the large dormitories in the yard is absolutely at the mercy of the men around him. As the weakest link in a chain must be taken as the measure of its strength, so must the safety of a hundred students be computed on the basis of the habits of the most heedless in their number. A carelessly built...
Bonus given with rooms at 10 Holyoke Street. Sunny, near the yard, very desirable, given up at last moment. Apply at once...
Bonus given with rooms at 10 Holyoke Street. Sunny, near the yard, very desirable, given up at last moment. Apply at once...
...great annoyance by the custom of some of the instructors of detaining their sections until the hour has fully expired. By this practice the unfortunate student in such courses is compelled to rush down innumerable flights of stairs and make his way along Oxford street and through the yard at a neck or nothing pace. It need hardly be said that such unnatural speed as this is harmful to the last degree, especially since it is apt to follow closely upon the exhaustion produced by the daily sprint race to the chapel doors. Yet the student must go into this...