Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ropes for class day lanterns were arranged in the yard yesterday...
...give especial attention to the matter of the gatekeepers on Friday next. Last year professional ticket-takers were employed in the place of the policemen who had served in previous years, in order that the large following of the latter gentry might not find so ready access to the yard. But it has been ascertained on excellent authority that it was the practice of some of the professionals employed to give a package of yard tickets to some accomplice, who would stand in the neighborhood of the gate and sell the tickets to whoever wished to purchase them. The unpleasant...
...urgent call of many students of the university, the Glee Club and Pierian will give another out-door concert in the yard this evening. All members of both clubs are earnestly requested to be on the steps of Matthews at 7.30 sharp...
...committee have already discovered that notwithstanding their urgent and apparently reasonable request about the disposition of tickets, a member of the class has seen fit to place on sale at a store in Cambridge sundry Memorial and yard tickets, to be sold to any one who cared to buy them. The committee, rather than allow this, saw fit to purchase them at a price far above their value; and they would now beg every member of the class who is contemplating any like action, to consider whether he ought to place the interests of his own pocket before the interests...
...thirty lively rats. It was soon made known that the little terrier, Fannie, who had not succeeded in badger hunting, was to be exercised in rat-killing. As soon as the rats arrived the owner's classmates were overjoyed. They abandoned their lessons, and hastily repaired to a convenient yard, where the crate with its squealing live stock was conveniently placed for the exhibition which came off this afternoon. Fannie was put inside the crate and time was taken. A committee of students had first counted the rats, and found them to number just twenty-seven. The students danced about...