Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Although in winter the yard, and especially the trees covered with snow, never looked prettier than yesterday and the day before, yet we know very well that this snow will not last and that we are in the midst of another thaw and its consequent evils. Nature has separated the quiet city of Cambridge and the raging and restive Ohioby many miles. Nevertheless we are threatened with considerable danger when the next thaw sets in, which probably will be immediately. Every one knows what the danger is here, continual rivulets throughout the yard through which all have to wade...
...university lacrosse twelve and new candidates now meet in the yard every morning at 8 o'clock...
...yard presented a beautiful sight yesterday morning, as trees and buildings were covered with the feathery snow...
...photographer took several views of the yard yesterday morning...
...community all the pomp and show which might mark such an occasion in any of the effete despotisms of a foreign civilization, was yesterday heroically dispensed with at Harvard. With tense brows and studious, downcast look. professors and students could be seen pacing the gravel-strewn walks of the yard, intent no doubt in recalling the glorious deeds of the father of his country, first in peace, first in war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. How much better is such an observance of the day than the maddening pomp and wild holiday uproar that some thoughtless ones...