Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent number of the CRIMSON the statement appeared that Harvard held four intercollegiate records and Yale five. This was a mistake. Harvard holds five records, the 100, 220 and 440-yard dashes, the half-mile run, and the mile walk. Yale holds five, the mile run, running broad jump, hammer, shot, and hurdle race...
...with much retold in this volume. The frontispiece is a facsimile of the earliest existing record of the college - ; another facsimile; a photogravure of the original charter of Harvard, dating "the one and thirtieth day of the third month called May, 1650," is given, and two views of the yard in 1821, after Alvan Fisher, complete the illustrations...
...prepare for them. But there are some men who seem not to have any concern at all about the examinations, and not only do not study themselves, but keep others from studying by their thoughtless racket in their rooms and the entries, and when going through the college yard at night. It is very exasperating for those who are trying to study to be disturbed, and every one should during the examinations practice forbearance...
...occasion for a serenade, and considering the result of the game, no occasion for joyful demonstration. Furthermore the evening was damp and disagreeable, sufficient excuse in itself for not singing. An item in yesterday morning's CRIMSON states that ".several parties of ladies and gentlemen waited in the yard in the rain for half an hour or more for the Glee Club to sing." They must have been "daft" if they expected us to pipe our tuneful bags under the protection of umbrellas. Seriously speaking, however, I do not think that under the circumstances the Glee Club committed any breach...
...closing let me say that the Club expects to sing in the yard during June at least once a week. It is a difficult matter to get the fellows together oftener than that during the examination period...