Word: yarde
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: The notification in regard to room assignments, which has just been distributed with the spring bills, brings up again the old discussion in regard to getting into the yard. I am not starting the debate anew for selfish reasons. My case is hopeless, for I am a senior. Four long and weary years I have waited at the very gates of this paradise, but the fates and this pernicious system of distribution have been against me. I shall never room in the yard...
...write this in behalf of my younger brother, Rob, who will enter with the class of '97. He must have a room in the yard, even if I have to endow the University with a new dormitory...
...powers that be know that a room in the yard is a Harvard man's greatest prize, the value of which increases in geometrical ratio as his years in college advance. Is it fair, then, that every one of the four hundred boarding-school boys in various parts of the United States who are intending to come to Harvard next year, but who have absolutely no connection with college, many of whom never will be here or will be plucked in the examinations, should have an equal chance at the limited number of rooms available, with fellows who have been...
...would respectfully call the attention of the authorities who preside over the college yard to a little matter which is under their jurisdiction. We wish to enter an emphatic protest against the water which the pump near Matthews supplies to thirsty students. This water is, and has been for a long time, totally unfit to drink. We have been told on good authority that the water has been analyzed and found to contain impurities to a large amount. Now whatever the cause of this pollution is, it seems to us that the water ought not to remain in this condition...
...yard dash appears to lie between the same men, though S. G. Wells, L. S., Harvard, is also a fast man at this distance. He is expected to take the quarter-mile with A. Coit, '87, of Yale, or J. F. McGuire, '90, second...