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Word: yard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...long walk through the yard has again assumed its resemblance to the grand canal of Venice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/17/1885 | See Source »

LOST.- On Harvard Square or in the yard, on Thursday evening, Feb. 14, a short gold chain, with a crystal attached. Finder will be reasonably rewarded on returning to R. Aldrich, 32 Thayer Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 2/14/1885 | See Source »

...recent thaw has formed several natural rinks in the yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/11/1885 | See Source »

...There was reason for the use of Latin in the earlier catalogues. At that time students had college names, "just as the monks had their monastic names," and were not permitted to speak English within college limits. "When Comfort and Giles, in running "across the college yard, chaffed each "other in their mother tongue, Consolantius and Aegidius were forthwith "summoned to the president's office, "and, after receiving a suitabel reprimand in the Latin of the period, were "subjected to such corporeal discipline "under the eye or the hand of the president as then commended itself to the "average Puritan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 2/6/1885 | See Source »

...running track, our crews may not find it beneficial to follow this rule. The great abuse, however, of the refreshing and wholesome out door exercise lies in taking it when the thermometer atands below zero. On the coldest day this winter, when few persons ventured across the yard without a heavy overcoat, when rooms in Thayer and Holyoke could not be heated above forty or fifty degrees, one of the crews had the hardihood to run up North Avenue, clad in the scanty and inadequate clothing of the gymnasium. The harm done by such needless exposure is two fold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/4/1885 | See Source »

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