Word: yarde
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...exploring party had left the monument. Led by their experienced guide they turned to the left, went down a crowded street or two and came to the Navy Yard. A sentry or two stared at them as they passed through the gate and entered the government grounds. It is a pretty place - the yard - with green terraces and broad, asphalt walks. In front of the barracks a blue-coat with his musket on his shoulder is striding up and down, and a couple of brass howitzers standing on the terrace glisten in the sun. Hurrying by we stopped a moment...
...Front room in the yard; Thayer 19. Bonus given. Apply at Bursar's, or Thayer...
...exercising a sort of proprietary right in accompanying it to fires. The second supposition, however, would seem to be the more probable, since it shows up in the light of self-interest this tendency to respond to alarms. Every student who rooms in the older dormitories in the yard knows that it is only a question of time when he may be compelled to rush for his life from his blazing building. He trains himself, therefore, for the inevitable crisis by getting out-of-doors as soon as possible at the sound of the alarm bells. Moreover, he does...
...Front room in the yard; Thayer 19. Bonus given. Apply at Bursar's, or Thayer...
...Front room in the yard; Thayer 19. Bonus given. Apply at Bursar's, or Thayer...