Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Bryce admires the Harvard yard and the Yale campus. "At Harvard and Yale the brick dormitories and class-rooms are scattered over a wide extent of well-kept lawn; ancient elms planted in every corner lend an additional pleasing effect to the whole...
...college yard was the piece of ground lying between Harvard and Massachusetts Hall and the original Stoughton Halls, which stood facing the main gate and made the eastern side of a quadrangle. The old Stoughton Hall was more picturesque than the other dormitories: it was three stories high, had dormer windows, and made some pretensions toward architectural beauty. In this building and in Massachusetts-at that time a dormitory-forty to fifty students had their rooms...
Stoughton, although it has housed many men since famous, has contributed very little to the traditions of the college yard. In 1839 two freshmen were awakened from their slumbers by the insertion through their window of a large rocket, which in its explosion fortunately did little damage. In 1870 an infernal machine was exploded within the building, which caused serious damage. Among the well-known names of those who at different times have roomed in Stoughton are found those of Edward Everett, Alex. H. Everett, Caleb Cushing, H. Greenough, Cornelius C. Felton, C. Sumner, G. T. Bigelow, Oliver Wendell Holmes...
CHARLES COPELAND, Sec.Anybody having found a $10 bill in the Weld entry or anywhere around the yard will oblige loser by leaving at Leavitt and Peirce...
...SUBLETT.FOR RENT CHEAP-Two well furnished rooms on Harvard St. opposite the yard for balance of year. Address M. A. S. Crimson office...