Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Cambridge in the vicinity of the college yard is now disturbed almost nightly by campaign enthusiasts with torches, gaudy uniforms and snare drums...
...CRIMSON cannot hold itself responsible for the safe delivery of papers outside the yard at houses where there are neither letter boxes nor attendants ready to receive the paper. In order that the CRIMSON may visit subscribers in this position, the subscribers must either call for the paper at the Co-operative office, or request the paper to be mailed...
...members of the committee realizing this have pushed the work forward as rapidly as they were able, but still there are many men in the lower classes and others rooming outside of the yard that have not as yet been reached...
...college sadly needs a yard policeman, whose duty it shall be to look after the yard and fields. The college yard is fast becoming a grand playground for Cambridge infant muckerdom. Exciting bicycle races between ten-year-olders on squeaking, rattling "machines," eliciting shrill yells from their mucker audience, are not soothing to the nervous systems of the inhabitants of ground floor rooms. We all know what a nuisance the muckers are when a concert or anything else is going on in the yard, and how annoying they are when we wish to lie around under the trees in warm...
...that the crowds are kept out-which certainly has never been done yet. Successful thefts have been made through the windows of ground floor rooms, and it is a wonder there are not more; these would be checked by the presence of a good man in the yard. We do not want a policeman who shall exercise at all the functions of a proctor with the students-that would do more harm than good. But we do need a policeman who shall enforce our right to inhabit peacefully our yard and our fields, who shall make outsiders "move...