Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: On Saturday evening, between 7.30 and 8 o'clock, a large number of small muckers amused themselves by setting off fireworks in the yard, and larger specimens of the same species used the yard as a bicycle riding track. The college authorities should enforce the privileges of private property by appointing an officer whose duty shall be to keep the yard free from obnoxious intruders. If the crowd of the "unwashed" who now frequent the yard were made to understand that they were, like beggars and pedlars, in danger of being "given in charge to the police...
Tickets will be sold at 1 Hollis on Friday, June 15th, between 9 A. M. and 12 M., and on Saturday, June 16th, between the same hours. Packages (16 yard, 10 Memorial, 7 tree and 4 Sanders tickets) to be selected by lot will be sold to members of the senior class at $11.00 per package...
Members of the graduating classes of the Law and Medical Schools and candidates for higher degrees will be allowed 6 yard and 3 Memorial tickets on payment...
Gentlemen giving spreads will save themselves inconvenience by informing their caterers, first, that wagons will not be allowed in the yard after 12 M. on class day; second, that between 12 M. and 4 P. M. all material for spreads must be carried in by attendants on foot; and, third, that between 4 P. M. and 11 P. M. attendants will not be allowed to enter or leave the yard with dishes, ice-cream cans, etc. The inconvenience caused by the lack of a rule of this kind in '82 has led to its adoption in our own case...
...first events contested were the trial heats of the 100-yards dash. The contestants in the first heat were W. Baker, '86, Harvard; S. Derickson, Jr., '85, Columbia; A. S. Johnson, '85, Harvard; H. S. Brooks, Jr., '85, Yale, and C. G. Wilson, '83, Princeton. Baker won the heat in 10 3/4 seconds with Derickson a good second. Brooks made a false start and was therefore put back a yard...