Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...past years, certain clerks in the stores about the college (a few only, however.) have made a regular business of speculating in Class Day tickets. They obtain the tickets in divers ways, and offer them publicly for sale. In this way numbers of thoroughly objectionable people get into the yard, and it was mainly to curtail one of the sources of supply of these clerks that the word "tradesmen" was used...
...themselves to restrain their ardor in the celebrations, the faculty will let the matter drop. In order to insure the continuance of all intercollegiate games, the students have themselves taken the proposition in hand and have set about organizing a special college police force, to do duty in the yard when any celebration is in progress. F. Stevenson, the captain of the crew, has been appointed chief of the college police, and he is busily engaged in making preparations to preserve order when another victory comes along. There is now very little doubt of any further interference of the faculty...
...tradesmen." Others are not so fortunate. There is a vulgar belief that in this country "a man's a man for a' that." The fathers of several of the faculty and many students are tradesmen. According to the committee, such persons must not be admitted to the yard. It is a pity if students can only judge fitness by vocation. Such snobbishness is a curse to the University and has brought it into deserved disrepute...
...BENNETT, Pres.FRESHMAN GLEE CLUB.- Last rehearsal in Holyoke 9 at 7.30 this evening, with singing in the yard afterwards. All must be sure to come...
...Glee Club will sing in the yard to-night after its annual meeting for the election of officers...