Word: yarde
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last year, gave evidence of the enthusiasm which the success of the nine will always excite. We go to press at too late an hour to allow of any extensive investigation as to the opinion of the students concerning the unsuccessful attempt to build a bonfire in the yard. But we feel compelled to censure any proceeding upon the part of the students which will tend to endanger college property. There is little doubt but that the indiscriminate building of fires will have this result. The question which now remains to be solved is, whether the students are to have...
...Glee Club gave a very welcome and much enjoyed concert in the yard at a late hour last evening...
...resignation of the yard committee in consequence of the small vote polled, proves conclusively either that it is the distinct wish of the majority of the students that there shall be no yard committee, or that there is little general interest felt in the whole matter. The time has come when it is necessary for the college to express some definite opinion for or against the possibility of active student government. It is a disgrace to the university that upon a public poll open to every student of the college, only a small minority of the students felt called upon...
...committee from the CRIMSON, yesterday, interviewed members of the faculty upon the question of the yard committee. The committee learned that, as the faculty had voted to give the command of the yard into the hands of the students, the students were to be allowed to work out the plan by which the necessary work is to be accomplished. The difficulties of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion are recognized, and the students will be expected to surmount the difficulties and perfect a scheme by which the desired results of successful student control of the yard may be attained...
Whereas the committee elected for the maintenance of order in the college yard do believe that, from the smallness of the vote cast, they do not represent the general feeling of the college, and also that the smallness of the vote indicates an unwillingness on the part of the students to undertake the control of the yard, notwithstanding the vote of the mass-meeting, Resolved: that the committee do hereto unanimously resign their office...