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Word: yard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...total put him in second place individually, one stroke behind tourney medalist John McCann of B.C., who carded 80, 84--164 on the par-71, 6328-yard layout...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golfers Take Greater Boston Tourney | 5/2/1978 | See Source »

Before the march, its organizers had predicted a turn-out between several hundred and 1000 protesters. No one had been prepared to handle a crowd of the size that ultimately assembled in the Yard at about midnight. Equally important, many of the United Front leaders had seemed to hang back, debating over who might take the responsibility of announcing a sit-out. The best solution, some decided, would be for the demonstrators "spontaneously" to stage a sit-out on their own, without any single leader putting his or her neck on the line by urging the crowd to participate...

Author: By Peter R. Melnick, | Title: In Unity Is Strength | 5/2/1978 | See Source »

...orations begin with straight history: Radcliffe was founded in such-and-such year, by so-and-so, in some building in Radcliffe Yard, and grew in the following three easy steps, etc. Above our heads slides of Anne Radcliffe and Ada Louise Comstock mingle with shots of women in long dresses in libraries and dining halls. Interspersed among these historical slides are contemporary scenes of Radcliffe and Cambridge...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Good Question | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

Every Thursday afternoon I give Crimson Key tours of Harvard Yard to incoming or prospective freshmen. This past week was pre-freshmen week, so all those on the tour knew they were "in," and only had to make that pseudo-decision between Harvard, Yale and Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tour of the Yard | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

Walking into the Yard, I knew right away from the gazes towards University Hall that no one was interested in hearing about how Harvard Hall burned down in 1674 nor how Mass Hall housed the office of Derek Bok. I certainly wasn't! So I decided to explain the struggle that was presently going on between the Harvard Community and the members of the Harvard Corporation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tour of the Yard | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

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