Word: yarde
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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From 2 to 5 P. M. there will be music in the yard...
...recent communication a correspondent speaks of the necessity of having some employe of the college whose business it would be to keep the yard free from all "muckers" and other intruders and the cries and tumult which they are sure to bring. Especially is this to be desired at this time of the year when the students desire as much quiet as possible. It would seem as though the superintendent of the yard could attend to this, but if it is not part of his duties, we hope it will not be long before some one is appointed to keep...
...days the punch used to be served in huge tubs on the college green, and classmates pledged each other's health in generous tin dippers. Of late years. however, each class has provided a separate bowl of punch of its own in the rooms facing on the college yard, and the year of the class has been conspicuously placarded on the outer wall, in order that the graduates might know where their classmates rallied. These little gatherings have always been marked by a spirit of lively cordiality, which might be expected of college classmates coming together after years of separation...
...several instances, but it was generally observed that the claret punch entertainments were neglected by those for whose edification they had been provided, and that the rooms where the old fashioned article was set forth were extensively patronized. But, for all that, there was no disorderly conduct in the yard, and the stories that have been told of riotous conduct on the part of the future alumni were the merest fiction. Of course, the boys, both old and young, are always excessively jolly on these occasions, and sometimes their conduct wakes the echoes under the towering elms of the college...
...entertainment and refreshment of visiting graduates. The familiar class placards at the windows facing the quadrangle, as magnets for the often too susceptible returning prodigal, will no more be seen. It is claimed, and with a good deal of truth, that the frequent uproarious scenes in and about the yard on the afternoon and evening of commencement day are mostly attributable to over-indulgence in the alluring spreads that are provided. The graduating class is seldom represented in these boisterous gatherings, its members being kept too busy with their exercises in the theatre to allow of recreative feasting. The outgoing...