Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gentleman prompted by curiosity, recently made investigations on the subject of the decrease in the number of Freshmen rooming in the yard, with the following interesting results...
...roomed in the yard...
...problem of getting rooms in the yard becomes more and more difficult every year. The incoming freshman classes are steadily increasing, while each year, the number of vacant rooms in the college buildings shows a corresponding decrease. In the table printed on another page, statistics will be found bearing on this question, by which it will be seen that there has been, for the past ten years, a steady decrease in the number of freshmen rooming in the yard, only broken by the erection of a new building, or the graduation of a very large class; and that whereas...
...position of dignified usefulness. Alone it stands, its old companion in arms, the Massachusetts pump, being still to infirm to assist in the good work of quenching the thirst of the parched students. It is strongly suspected that the revival of one of these landmarks, or rather yard-marks, has been brought about by the Total Abstinence League in the hopes of turning aside the stream of humanity which frequents at this time of the year the neighboring beer saloons. Whether this suspicion be true or false, the fact remains that we have at last after many complaints succeeded...
...After making the tour of the quadrangle, or "yard" as it is called by the students, we naturally turned our steps toward the famous Harvard Library, contained in Gore Hall, a substantial granite structure, built, it is said, in the same style of architecture as the Bodeleian Library at Oxford. On making inquiries we found, to our satisfaction that the building was open to visitors, and accordingly we availed ourselves of the privilege thus offered, and entered. On every hand we were surrounded by books; books old; books new; books of indeterminate age. Turning to our left, we entered...