Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...condition of the walks in the yard yesterday was disgraceful...
Some of the telephone and telegraph wires about the yard and square have been broken by the heavy weight of snow resting on them...
...building so near to the college grounds as the University Press on Brattle square suggests the possibility of an arrangement between the owners of the machine used for lighting this building and the college authorities, whereby the light could be introduced into the college library and perhaps into the yard. It may be urged that its use for lighting the yard would bring the quiet retirement of the latter into the rude glare of publicity. The still air of delightful studies would be tainted with this poison. Perhaps this may be true; yet the irrepressible conflict between the electric light...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON. -Having just been compelled to wade through the yard of this noble college, I am full of wrath at the mismanagement which allows such sidewalks as we have. Every man in college has had the same experience for the last two weeks of rainy weather. What we want and must have, is better sidewalks in the yard. The stone walk from Grays to Holworthy, in front of Weld and University, is a disgrace to any civilized community...
...have, I suppose, a superintendent of the yard. Why does not this college superintendent do something to remedy matters? No doubt the old excuse of "no funds" will be raised. Well, if Harvard can't afford decent sidewalks, it better shut down at once. Many other complaints are rife among the students. We want the library lighted by electricity; we want better lights and more of them in the yard, the doorways, and the entries; we want to know what the faculty are going to do about the resolutions on athletics; we want no recitations on legal holidays. This inactivity...