Word: yarde
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...whole disgrace of the present status of the question of yard control lies with those students who have refused to take the faculty at their word, but have maintained a position of sneering incredulity...
Moreover, I believe that the responsibility for yard troubles in the past rests with the men whose sober convictions condemn the excesses which have been committed, but who are too good natured or too irresolute to stand up to their convictions...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Within a day or two I have heard students, otherwise intelligent, speak of the recent action about the college yard as an attempt to make students do "police duty," and as an "outrageous" procedure on the part of the faculty. Were such a strange misapprehension wide spread, that might easily account for the lack of interest in the late election of a yard committee. If by "police duty" be meant anything like an eventual reporting of disorderly students to the Dean, I venture to say that not a single one of all the faculty-members who unanimously...
...armed French singers reaped quite a harvest in the yard yesterday evening by singing the "Marseillaise," "Le Petit Coq Rouge," and many other well-known airs...
...publish in another column a letter from a member of the faculty concerning the question of order in the yard, which ought now to occupy the mind of every student. The present state of affairs cannot continue. The building of surreptitious bon-fires at hours when none but the perpetrators can enjoy the noble sport, is conduct which is certainly worthy of the highest commendation and admiration, but it must necessarily fail to meet the craving of the college at large for an opportunity to relieve the excited emotions. Therefore, as a method of celebration, it may be safely considered...