Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fire-protection has been so often brought to the notice of the college, that it seems almost a waste of words to write further upon it. In the light of recent events, however, we are again led to call the attention of the undergraduates who have rooms in the yard to the danger in which they are placed and to the means which are at hand for meeting any emergencies which may arise. It would of course be useless to ask for any better appliances for extinguishing fire or for saving life, and we must therefore turn our attention...
...passes, is then qualified for a greater examination. This takes places in a huge building, or rather series of buildings, capable of accommodation upward of 10,000 students. On the day appointed, the youths who desire to pass enter a great gate and find themselves in a vast yard wherein are 13,000 small cells. These run in rows, and are numbered; they are each about nine feet high, five and a half feet long, and three feet eight inches wide. Each candidate takes a call, and at daylight receives a paper with which he must deal without leaving...
...Americans to see Mr. Emerson's intellectual proportions measured with "a British foot-rule," it cannot possibly enter into any discussion based on Emerson's merit or place. But it might be said that "a British foot-rule" is a far more accurate standard of measurement than an American yard-stick, when the latter measures four feet to the yard. Of course, argument is useless in such a question. It can never be settled until posterity itself decides...
Lost-a plain gold ring at the north end of the college yard. The finder will please leave the same at Brock and Leavitt...
Lost-a plain gold ring at the north end of the college yard. The finder will please leave the same at Brock and Leavitt...