Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: As there is a rule that no coal shall be delivered in the college yard after half-past eleven in the morning, why is it that loads are often empted in the basement of University during the afternoon...
...window of each room, to which ropes or rope ladders can be attached. The college is not to furnish students with these ropes, but each one, if he desires an escape of this kind, must provide himself with it at his own expense. The superintendent of the yard is examining the various patents, and will advise any student as to the best one for practical...
...workings of a patent rope fire-escape will be given at 4.15 P.M. today on Thayer, and the students are requested to be present if possible. If any are willing to practice placing and running up the extension fire ladders at that time, the superintendent of the yard will have the ladders brought out. It requires about a half a dozen men to manage these ladders, and if that number inform Mr. Knapp of their willingness to assist, then the practice can be carried...
...order that the management of the extension fire ladders may be understood, the superintendent of the yard has suggested that the students practice placing and running them up. The idea is a good one since the ladders are rather complicated machines which could not be properly handled without previous practice, and since, moreover, Mr. Knapp and Mr. Eveleth, who understand the management, both live some little distance from the yard. It would be advisable for the proctors and other officers of government, particularly, to acquire a knowledge of the management of the ladders, since they are always resident...
...interesting object was observed a few days since in the freight-yard of the B. & A. R. R. branch in Cambridgeport. A freight-car bore a poster on which the figures '86 appeared in large characters as a heading, while below followed a pronunciamento beginning, "All men are created free and equal - except freshmen," and then giving a set of rules to govern the conduct of such, with decisive intimations as to what they must and must not do. On inquiry of the freight hands it was learned that the car came from Syracuse, N. Y., where there exists...