Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Estimated amply, the Yard contains 2 1/8 miles of gravel-walks, including carriage-roads. At present prices, sufficient lumber for a thirty-inch walk, of the above length, can be bought for $550, $600 would cover the new walks to Sever and any incidentals. If, then, the donation of the College Fund were made conditional upon spending $600 for board-walks, the purpose in view would be accomplished in a manner unobjectionable to the Corporation...
...Horace, and not the Crimson, is responsible for the moral of this Ode. Its publication was withheld until after the Semi-annuals, for fear that it might have a bad influence. It was expected that plank walks would be in the Yard by that time; but alas ! the powers of the University defeat the best-laid schemes. It is too late, however, to alter the verses...
...Yard is all covered with snow...
...thought I stood within a level yard...
...Monday the Corporation voted "not to accept the subscriptions on the part of the students to pay for board walks in the Yard." The grounds of the refusal are, first, that it is not proper for the Corporation to accept subscriptions from students; secondly, that in the case when they did so, the men that subscribed for heating Sanders Theatre grumble because they were called upon to do it, and that this grumbling has come to the cars of members of the Corporation. With regard to this, we cannot see that there is any appreciable difference between receiving money from...