Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the salaries of many of our instructors are very meagre; and yet a man with little experience finds employment here at a salary amounting in all to $1,500 or $1,800; and that, too, by spending not more than four or five hours a day in the Yard, contrary to the rules under the head of INFORMATION FOR JANITORS...
...going through the College Yard (here Miss Meeker reached convulsively for her smelling-bottle), all the young men were coming out. They kept looking at me, and one of them said to another, 'coy, coy.' Was that Latin, auntie...
...Uneducated barn-yard fowl...
...first in this country, if not in the world. The completion of Sever Hall, with its improved system of ventilation, and its commodious recitation rooms, supplies a long-felt want. The Zoological Museum also, has been largely added to, and its sphere of usefulness has been proportionately increased. The Yard and the buildings in it have all been more or less improved, and the long-continued demand for plank walks has been at last partially granted. The Faculty, in its attitude towards undergraduates, has given renewed evidence of its often-expressed policy of liberality. More freedom is allowed...
Here the meeting was disturbed by a violent dispute between Doctor B-rt-l and Joseph C-k about the economy of protoplasm. Joseph proposed an interlude in the yard, where, being a large man, he would agree to wipe out B-rt-l- The Club were disposed to resent this speech; but a very learned man, H-xley by name, interposed, saying that the discussion would amuse Joseph and keep him out of mischief, and that if B-rt-l could stand it the rest of them could...