Word: yarde
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Hereafter the Glee Club will sing one or two evenings each week in the yard...
...them merited the disuse into which they have fallen. One custom, however, which seems in a fair way to become extinct is worthy a better fate. It is extremely strange that our undergraduates should have abandoned so enjoyable a custom as that of singing in the yard. Old graduates express the utmost surprise when told that student singing is very seldom heard in the yard, and recall with pleasure their own college days, when any chance gathering of undergraduates thought it no unpleasant way to pass an evening by joining in the jolly, rattling choruses which college men alone...
...results. We will hope that with the "shacks" the fever is to stop. Perhaps it would be well if these charming companions were always on the strike - provided they meant business and staid away without undertaking to damage property. But the word strike, in some indirect way, suggests a yard policeman. We wish the man and the birch switch would return to active duty...
...have awakened to the need of having strong and efficient fire-escapes. If private owners are willing to make the pecuniary sacrifice necessary for the construction of iron fire-escapes we cannot quite conceive what pretext the college authorities have for leaving the majority of the dormitories in the yard without these safeguards. The most crying need is felt in Thayer, whose light and unsatisfactory construction has been the subject of much complaint for years...
...could make it. But on Saturday there was a decided and most agreeable change. The change, however, of course had to have some drawbacks. For while the warm sun made the tennis nets and players sprout up profusely over Holmes and Jarvis, and started the struggling grass in the yard, it also brought up many weeds and muckers. These coarse plants were everywhere, and whoever passed among them seemed to hear them say, as they turned their foliage up to him, "shack...