Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...order to put the question of plank walks in the Yard to a test, we have to-day placed a subscription-book at Sever's. It will remain there for two weeks, unless a sufficient amount is subscribed before that time. All who have had reason to complain of the shameful condition of the walks so far - and who has not? - are urged to subscribe at once, and in order to save the trouble and delay of collecting subscriptions, to pay when they put down their names. The money will be returned in case the subscription fails. It is useless...
...room in the Yard. The wonder to me is that a single dormitory should have an occupant. All day long there is the tramping of fellow-students on the stairs, the slamming of doors, the outburst of what is called by courtesy music. Sometimes you hear a man call for "Tom" by the half-hour, as if Tom were some mighty heathen god. It must be pleasant, too, when the indefatigable athlete above you drops his Indian clubs with a yell that suggests the origin of the name applied to those useful articles, and begins to practise the last...
...will be gotten up in the highest style of art. Short words will never be used when long ones will suffice. The proof-reading will be as good as circumstances will permit. Extras will be issued whenever it becomes necessary to record the breaking of a window in the Yard, or the blowing off of a Sophomore's hat by the wind...
...health alone, not to mention the cheerfulness and comfort that an open fire affords, we should much regret to see our grates done away with. Heating the entries must not be expected, we fear, before all the buildings have fire-escapes, before there are plank walks in the Yard, and until there is some way of getting to Boston in less than half an hour. Unless open fires and stoves were entirely done away with, - which is not proposed, - it is difficult to see how the risk of fire would be materially diminished...
...GOOD deal of trouble has been given lately to the Secretaries of numerous College associations, by the apparently malicious removal of notices of meetings; &c., from the trees in the neighborhood of the Yard. But some one saw a member of that extremely able, civil, and energetic body, the Cambridge police force, taking down one of the H. A. A.'s posters from a tree on Main Street, and inquiries at the police headquarters revealed an old city ordinance, recently ordered to be enforced, which reads as follows...