Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: As there has been some dissatisfaction expressed because the Glee Club did not sing Monday night after the Princeton game, allow me briefly to explain why the concert in the yard was given up contrary to expectation...
Considerable dissatisfaction has been expressed because the Glee Club did not sing in the yard Monday night as was announced Monday. Several parties of ladies and gentlemen who had come to enjoy the singing waited in the yard in the rain for a half-an-hour or more after the time announced for the concert, and then left disappointed. It is to be hoped the Glee Club had good reasons for thus disappointing so many people...
...Yard Dash - Wells, L. S. Hardy, '87, Endicott, '90, E. Sturgis...
...Registrar has been compelled to call attention to the regulation of the Faculty prohibiting ball playing in the college yard. It seems that a number of men have fallen into the habit of passing ball in the yard instead of taking advantage of the excellent facilities which are afforded on Holmes and Jarvis Fields. Last spring "scrub" games were continually taking place both mornings and afternoons, but there seems to be a persistent tendency to let base-ball drop as a pastime but to continue it as a business. A return to "old-fashioned" ball playing in the morning would...
...time was when small knots of men used to gather in the yard and sing popular college melodies; but that time seems to have passed for good and all, and the Glee Club ought to make up the loss by singing oftener. Both the 'Varsity and Freshman Banjo clubs, too, should do their share. The knowledge that they are sure to meet a warm welcome should be incentive enough for them to try the experiment of an open-air concert. It is to be hoped that these few words of ours will have the effect of rousing the Glee...