Word: yarde
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...shoulder, was then padded and bandaged to three times its natural size, and the hand guarded by a thick leathern gauntlet. Lastly, a pair of spectacles, rimmed with metal, protected the eyes. The schlager, or duelling sword, is then placed in his hand - a nasty looking weapon about a yard and a quarter in length, quite blunt but for about ten inches at the end, where it is double-edged and as sharp as a razor. Thus accoutred, our hero, being the challenging party, walks slowly forward to the middle of the ground, his right arm, which must be terribly...
...yard dash probably lies between E. H. Rogers, '87, of Harvard and C. H. Sherrill, Jr., '89, of Yale, both of them comparatively new men. Rogers beat Sherrill last year, by six inches according to the partisan decision of the judges. J. P. Elton, '88, of Trinity, claims fast time, also, in this race...
Down by the east gate - Hesperian. The Hesperian has mistaken the locality of the disaster. It took place in our college yard...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: Now that the government of the college has seen fit to have board walks placed in the yard, the spirit of grumbling inherent in human nature must find place in some other grievance. The most evident evils now are the pools and running water which collect at the western entrance of the yard. Cannot these streams be bridged over or induced to find some other channel than the pathway of instructors and students...
After the rehearsal last evening the Pierian Sodality gave a very enjoyable open-air concert in the Yard...