Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Glee Club and Brass Band will give a combined yard concert this evening at 7 o'clock...
...offensive scrub game of ball. The college grounds at all hours of the day are the play-ground of youths who find no better enjoyment than in foul language and in playing hockey, polo they call it, upon the effeminate grass. The only active pump in the yard is their headquarters, and the thirsty student is often compelled to await his turn until the individual members of the detail of muckerism which happens to have precedence over him have sufficiently amused themselves and their comrades by various feats of agility of which the pump is the prime motor...
...which from time to time have been issued by the faculty have done little, except to arouse opposition, and to excite in the more turbulent students a desire to circumvent the issuers of these prohibitory proclamations. As a result, bon-fires have been kindled in dangerous places in the yard, cannon-crackers have been placed even under the proctors' windows, and the disturbance has been continued until almost morning. Should these manifestos be repealed and the entire control of celebrations be given into the hands of the students, as the committee proposes, there would be an end, we think...
...college, the party was met by the undergraduates who had remained in Cambridge, and a procession was at once formed, headed by the band. Amid a blaze of red and green fire, and the flashing of Roman candles the column marched up to the main entrance of the yard, only to find that the gates had been shut against them. Baffled, but not discouraged, the men counter-marched, steadily keeping up the refrain of "Yale men say," and disbanded in front of Holyoke. A rush was made for the yard, where singing and cheering was started, interrupted by occasional calls...
Most of the undergraduates can remember the wild enthusiasm which greeted the return of the 'varsity nine last year after its victorious trip to New Haven and Amherst. Few will ever forget the ovation the nine received as it came down by the yard in the midst of a blaze of rockets and red fire, saluted by the wild "rah, rah" of a thousand students, serenaded by the weird strains of the Brass Band, which played, replayed, and then played over again the only air it had attempted to master,- "Yale men say." Nor will the saturnalia that followed...