Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...HUNDRED YARD RACEwas run. The contestants were R. D. Smith, '86; C. O. Lander, '86; A. F. Holden, '88; and c. A. Porter, '88. The start. was almost even, but Smith and Porter pulled ahead, and ran neck and neck up to the fifty yard post; then Holden spurted and easily led for the rest of the race, coming in two feet ahead of Smith, the time was 10 4 5s. Porter was third man. At the same time C. H. Atkinson, '85, and H. L. Clark, '87, jumped...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. In your Monday's issue I noticed a suggestion that a policeman be employed to patrol the yard and frighten the small boys away. The suggestion is praiseworthy. But a further and still more valuable use might be made of the said policeman. He might be employed as a portable scare-crow and have appended to him before and aft placards bearing the firm injunction, keep off the grass. He might then be moved from place to place by "the authorities," and put athwart the pths of the sand-loving students who prefer to see a checker...
...CLAFLIN, Manager.LITERARY MONTHLY.- All the men who have not been seen, and especially those living outside the yard who wish to subscribe to the Literary Monthly, would oblige us by leaving their names at Sever's, or by giving them to one of the editors before the end of this year. The new Monthly will certainly be run next year, but we hope in our circulation to reach as many men as possible, and to accomplish this have placed the price of a year's subscription at $2, a sum certainly within the reach of every...
...informed that certain employees of the college are endeavoring to persuade the financial managers of the institution of the advisability of employing a yard policeman by day, as well as a watchman at night, not to interfere with the students in any way, but to keep the yard from being, as now, the play-yard of Cambridge youths. We have felt for years the necessity of such a step, and sincerely hope that the plan will be carried into operation...
...correspondent of the Springfield Republican thus describes the beauties of Cornell: "The immediate surroundings and scenery of Cornell are romantic in a high degree. Fancy the college yard of Yale, Harvard or Amherst enlarged to the size of Boston Common and the Public Garden, and place the 'campus' upon the steep slope of Holyoke or Mount Tom, intersect the region below with gorges and water-falls at every half-mile, and let these empty a perpetually cascading stream into Long Island Sound, and you will have some notion of the natural beauties and difficulties of Ithaca...