Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...where little things do not escape the eye, there we may be sure that the big things are not neglected. When we see such a slight evil as the lack of bulletin boards in two buildings remedied, what shall not our hopes be of a bridge over our raging yard torrents - which we now must ford - of additional dormitories, of a better class of goodies - the hiring of whom with the present pittance for wages is, we confess, well high impossible, and of the correction of all other inconveniences, which in the absence of real evils we amuse ourselves...
Great Jove! And can these things be? The yard a lake of raging water, whose billows roll over the unprotected sidewalks, and never a glimmer of light at night to act as light-house on the vasty deep! This particular editor of the CRIMSON fell in three feet of water, and wandered off the main channel of the sidewalk into deeper gulfs twice last evening in voyaging from Holworthy to Weld. There was water everywhere, and nothing to guide him in it. The president is away, we know, but we must appeal to the pity and humanity of the residuary...
...ordinary passer-by, it would seem as if the little Cambridge "muckers," had far more use and enjoyment out of the college yard than the students. A while ago the path from the library to Grays Hall was monopolized by "bobs" loaded with precious freight in the shape of "muckers" young and old, enjoying a pleasant coast. Now there is not a smooth strip of ice in the yard on which a mob of Cambridge youths do not slide during the entire...
Those who have in charge the lighting of the yard, with a childlike and beautiful faith that the moon would shine brightly through the heavy clouds that covered the sky last evening, did not light the yard lamps and the unfortunates who happened to venture out were left to stumble blindly through the mud and slush. "Economy is the road to wealth...
...enough, however, for some of the newer candidates. Lately the track on Holmes field has been covered with a smooth coating of ice, and on mid-days the runners with their spiked shoes have found it a good place to practice. Good time has been made in the 100-yard dash on this ice-track...