Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...make a point of always encouraging any attempted improvements in the appearance and convenience of the yard or buildings. When, then, we see the authorities endeavoring to beautify the yard, we have at once to urge all concerned to assist them. The present is a very critical time in the growth of grass, and only by considerable care on the part of all, by refraining from walking or running across the grass plots, can the yard be made to have its usual beautiful appearance. The college horse, famed in antiquity, depends in a large measure, on the amount...
...hope for a change in the situation. Just at present there are several matters in which the conference committee, if it were established, might be useful. It might inquire of the faculty, for instance, the reason why the bulletin boards of the nine were prohibited from the yard; or it might seek to learn the faculty's state of mind on the professional question, and whether any good whatsoever has been accomplished by forbidding the nine to play with professional teams, and by prohibiting professional coaches...
LOST.-In the enclosure between the College yard and Cambridge Common, two books. 54 College House...
...sure sign that some old brigadier will need "polishing." This is a very disrespectful way to speak of burying a brave old soldier, but have we not provocation? A funeral means two hours under arms, and a tramp through the cold and snow to the grave-yard where the volley that does honor to the departed, gives us an hour's work cleaning our guns. Long life to all that in tend to be buried here...
...approach of warm weather again brings to our notice one of the crying wants of the college yard. While the authorities are hardly called upon to furnish the students with a patent Coggswell fountain, they assuredly ought to see that the pumps which grace our yard should be made to forsake their idleness, and become as useful as they have hitherto been ornamental. The student is at present scrupulously restrained from quenching his thirst, except at meal time, by any other means than by resorting to the opponents of the Harvard Total Abstinence Society. It is in the behalf...