Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...precise proctor's ear, and woe betide the man who by some ill fate occupies a room directly over the proctor. But what a contrast to this is presented where any body of the students, notably a certain sophomore society, may with impunity wake the echoes of the Yard absolutely at any hour of the night with the joyful news of newly elected members or the memories of an evening brawl. Surely the absolute certainty of awakening everybody within the range of their discordant sounds, cries for correction of its cause more than the doubtful disturbance of an evening...
...thousand dollars for a gateway at Harvard": and the yard in darkness, the library in darkness, and hundreds of men forced to board away from the college yard because of a lack of dormitories. The members of the university are, indeed, grateful for any improvement of the university property, even if that improvement be the gilding of the Gore Hall steeples. But this is a practical age. It is true that "we cannot live by bread alone," but bread is quite necessary. If money is to be left to the university, why cannot some benefactor not gain immortality for himself...
...water-color sketches by Miss Bulfinch, of different views of the college yard and buildings, have been placed on sale at the University Bookstore...
Plank walks are now being laid in the yard...
...water-color sketches by Miss Bulfinch, of different views of the college yard and buildings, have been placed on sale at the University Book-store...