Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wholesome as possible the authorities seem bound to have them run on an economical manner that each morning a lesson against worldly extravagance may be inculcated in the heart of the spendthrift student. Not content with the saving of 97 cents made by not lighting the lamps in the yard in recess the careful "watch dogs of the treasury" wish to save an additional penny by not using gas in the chapel on very dark days, when it is needed. The pulpit alone is lighted, while the poor beings below and above stand in the dim, sacred light...
...remedy for this seems to be as follows: That the field be marked off with lines parallel to the goal line five yards apart; that in all cases of lining out the ball be carried to the five-yard line next nearer the goal of the side having the ball; that the snapper-back here take possession of the ball; that the teams then line out on the next five-yard lines toward their own goals, respectively. The opposing lines are then ten yards apart, with the snapper-back midway between them. This plan would prevent the players from remaining...
...readily believed, a large proportion of the men stayed at college for the purpose of grinding for the semis, hence the library was well attended, and the bright windows in many of the halls relieved what would otherwise have been the funereal darkness of the yard, for the economical authorities effected a saving of 97 cents by leaving the yard lamps unlighted during the vacation...
...Serenade in the yard...
LOST.-A pair of Seal Skin Gloves. Probably left in Sever, or else dropped in the yard. Will the finder please leave his address at Bartlett...