Word: yarde
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...without exception the poorest I ever saw and have the added disadvantage of being so near the foot ball grounds as to be continually surrounded by confusion. There is nothing to prevent the balls from escaping into the road at either side, and the muckers, the curse of the yard, are always on hand to distract the player. To crown all the courts are of turf and consequently unfit for use, for a turf court without the best care and on a poor foundation soil is bound to be a failure...
...merely resting their hands on the ball, when in a match it would be kicked from under by the nearest opponent so quickly that the referee would never allow it ; of "bunting" so palpably as to make an evident foul ; of not kicking off from the twenty-five yard line quickly when they get a chance, etc., etc. It takes much of the snap and maneuver out of their play. Let us have a good referee then, every day, and let the fellows play to the referee...
...hounds. The course led over the iron bars between Harvard and Hollis on to the Common. Here the hounds were soon at fault, for mischievous boys had taken up some of the plentiful paper scent and marked out a false track toward Christ Church and into a neighboring yard. After several minutes of precious time had been wasted in investigating this trick, the hounds once more took up the scent on Concord Avenue to the Arsenal, where they all had to take the high picket fence, Across fields and roads, up Bowdoin, Linnean and Raymond street. to the redolent settlement...
Long before the clocks of the many churches which surround the college yard had struck the hour of three a throng of professors, students and civilians began to crowd through the doors and fill up the seats of Saunder's Theatre. Many ladies also were present, among whom the thoughtful faces of our Annex maidens might easily be perceived, who had come forth from that sole remnant of antiquity which Cambridge can boast of-the Appian Way-to aid in applauding the unveiling of the new statue of John Harvard, the founder. Punctually at three o'clock the stage...
Attention is called to the vote of the Faculty by which the use of drums in the college yard or buildings is forbidden...