Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...justice and reform in such eloquent and powerful language, after all your own laborious reports and editorials and statistics, we see only this result. And again, what have I accomplished in all these years by my efforts to secure steam heating in the dormitories and more lamps in the yard, and other changes too numerous to mention? Simply, nothing. And why, Mr. HERALD, why is this? The answer, sir, is Harvard "indifference." Indifference to reform, indifference to their own interests, indifference to disinterested efforts on their behalf; and fear of publicity, fear of the enthusiasm of indignation, fear...
...mile run for those who have never won a prize has been added to the list of contests at the Union Athletic Club games. Following is a corrected programme: Pole leaping; running high jump; one-mile run, scratch; one-mile run; seventy-five yard run, scratch, for those who have never taken a prize; bicycle slow race; one-mile bicycle race; two-mile bicycle race; bicycle club drill, by Crescent Club of Boston, twelve men; tugs of war, two classes, viz: military, teams of four men, any weight, boat club and athletic club teams of four men, 600 pounds; polo...
...several inches deep in some places, and what must we expect when the regular spring thaws come? It seems to us that a great lack of forethought was shown by the authorities when they expended so much in placing stone and brick walks all over the yard, and left these two most important thoroughfares without even the protection of that cheap, and much abused, "plank walk...
...United States steamship Essex left the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, Va., yesterday morning for the Pacific station...
...schoolmaster has not returned from the vacation; a slate on the door of a janitor's office in a dormitory in the yard reads as follows: janator of - building...