Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...YARD tickets will be given to Sophomores at the Rhetoric Examination...
...price, would be very glad to buy fewer tickets at the same rates. It is too late to make any change this year; but it seems only right that such men should be provided for in future, by selling smaller packages, as well as the larger. Packages containing 3 Yard, 1 Theatre, 1 Tree, 2 Memorial tickets, might be sold for two dollars and a half; half-packages for five dollars and a half, for instance; that such a provision for men not well off would not make the total sale less, and so interfere with the arrangements...
...efforts of the Committee to make Class Day enjoyable to those for whom it is intended are commendable. Instead of being roped off as usual, the Yard will be paled in. This will be a great improvement over the old plan. It seems impossible with the rope to keep out the rabble; and before the evening is over the crowd is so large that one cannot move about the Yard with any comfort. The aim of the Committee is to distribute the Yard-tickets among the class, and if all are careful as to whom they give them, next Class...
...Yard will be paled in after 5 o'clock, on Class Day, and as no one will be admitted without tickets, it will be necessary to observe some care about invitations. The best device is to enclose with the invitation a card asking whether Yard tickets are wanted or not. All who are coming before 5 o'clock will not need them...
...SENIOR SOPHOMORE MEETINGS.OWING to the number of walk overs in the Senior and Sophomore events, it was decided to hold the meetings conjointly yesterday afternoon. The programme commenced with the Seniors' 100-yard dash in which Messrs. Keene and Hawes appeared, the former proving an easy winner in 11 1/4 sec., Hawes about 8 yards behind. Messre. A. L. Hall and R. N. Ellis appeared for the Seniors' mile run, which proved a most exciting contest. The men kept together until the very end, Ellis, however covering much more than his distance by running beside his man on the outside...