Word: yarde
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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College sympathy and encouragement was not lacking. Prize bats and balls were offered as incentives to good batting and fielding large audiences followed the team to its games, and "playing ball in the yard. . . . superceded some of the good old customs of running foot-races, playing marbles in front of Holworthy, and other irregular practices which the seniors used to indulge in." Every class had a nine, nearly all of which had inter collegiate matches. The Law School had a nine. Scientific School had a nine. Everybody was wild over base-ball and 10,000 people it is estimated, stood...
...obnoxious odor which pervaded the yard and its immediate neighborhood last Saturday morning, was caused by the smouldering of the cotton felting fastened around the water pipes which lead from University to Thayer. The smouldering was due to the close proximity of the steam pipes to the water pipes...
...custom of exclusion is to be practiced the result is that the club, however bright its promise, cannot succeed in meeting such a need as is said to exist. If the club on the other hand is to be simply a meeting place little less general than the yard, and every man who cares to do so can spend an hour at the club house with the hope of meeting the men whom he meets every day in the yard, and with the same probability of a more intimate acquaintance, the club will prove but little else than a covered...
...cannot remember what number he told us. Or again memory plays us false, and we do not feel sure enough to knock at a door which we have opened time and again. In all these cases, we are left hopelessly nursing our memory in the hall or in the Yard, with no alternative but to seek the information in our room or at some store. Then we retrace our steps, - possibly to the same building and the same door. The service of a card directory in such emergencies and they are not infrequent - is obvious...
Because we need a few things, such as one or two dormitories, the lighting of Gore Hall, plank sidewalks in the yard and an elevated railway to Boston, which the authorities can not furnish all at once on account of the lack of available funds, we must not lose sight of the fact, that in the great and complicated whole, the university is, to use a technical Greek phrase "just booming...