Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...night of the first classmeeting. With regard to the action of the faculty, it must be said that the tendency for "rushing" such as it exists at other colleges is gaining ground here, and that there are better ways of spending an evening than parading about the college yard in phalanxes and testing their lungs to the utmost to see which party can outdo the other in bravado. Besides, the yard is no place for rushes, Jarvis Field is reserved for that intellectual occupation. As soon as the undergraduates bring themselves to the point when they...
Great excitement was occasioned in the yard last night by the little game of "Push, gently Push," played by the sub-juniors and freshman. Much gore was spilled, one freshman having received a bloody-nose in the fray. He was rescued and carried from the field by his gallant nurse, who administered pap to him in small doses. The latest advices say he is slowly recovering and his faithful nurse, Mrs. Maginnis is the heroine of the hour...
...welcome announcement that the collections from the post office box in the yard will be made at the same hours as from the boxes on Main street...
...time fixed for the race was 6.30 on Thursday, June 30th. The course for the two-mile races at New London is the last half of the four-mile course-that is to say, the stretch between the Navy Yard and the finish flag opposite Winthrop's Point. The weather was beautiful and the water was comparatively smooth. The Columbia men were rather smaller than the Harvard Freshmen, and it was generally supposed that the latter would win easily...
...boats passed the Navy Yard, which is just opposite the two-mile flag, Harvard had five lengths of open water, and it seemed almost certain that Columbia would be defeated unless some unforeseen accident occurred. The Freshman crew had stationed themselves on an old wharf at this point in the race, and seemed much pleased with the success of the 'Varsity, uttering loud shouts of approval. Harvard passed the two-and-a-half mile flag...