Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-Your suggestion as to the advisability of some co-operation between the faculty and students on the subject of celebrations seems an excellent one. It is much better, if we are to celebrate, that our demonstrations be confined to our own yard than to the streets of Cambridge, where the disturbance is more generally felt...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-I am very glad to see by your issue of this morning that the students take the proper view of the disturbances in the yard. No one can doubt that the faculty have contributed directly to the result. On Saturday the drums were stopped, and that aroused a hostile spirit which was sure to find vent in some way or other. Then on Monday night, the absurd remarks of an instructor, which received a greeting that on other occasions would have been disgraceful, and the puerile attempts of another, whose long experience should have taught him better...
...burnt, the college would suffer an irreparable loss. If we must have the traditional bonfire, let it be on Jarvis field, or in some spot where no danger to any property can be apprehended. But why the faculty should forbid the brass band to lead a procession through the yard, or the Glee Club to sing, it is difficult to comprehend. The explanation possibly is that the proctors, like the students, carried their programme further than was originally intended. The students built several bonfires because they were disturbed at the first one. The proctors, in order to prevent dangerous fires...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON-The recent disturbances in the yard bring up the question as to whether the students are alone responsible. It has been maintained by many townsmen, and is the opinion of a large class of the men, that the faculty are directly responsible for much of the trouble. What is their attitude ? They say, "You shall not make a bonfire," and by a system of espionage, well calculated to arouse the opposition of the fellows, try to prevent any demonstrations. The result is a long and tedious delay to the inevitable celebrations. The proctors on one side...
...Monday night much the same scene was repeated,-a troublesome and provoking interference was shown, the band was not allowed to enter the yard, the students were ordered about like schoolboys, and a threatening and ill timed speech was made by one of the younger instructors. A feeling of resistance, a desire to smash something was the natural and inevitable result, and I can but think it fortunate that so little trouble came of it. I believe that on such occasions, happening so rarely as they do, very great liberty can be safely given to the students. Certainly, such features...