Word: yarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number of the Princeton players the accepted masters in the art of the drop-kick, could boot field goals from any angle or from the 47 yard line. One of the backs would lie full-length on the ground, while the kicker would take on step up and place the ball squarely between the crossbars...
Chaperoning is not enforceable; the only actual checkups are made by zealous or the Yard police, who are eager to climb the dizzy heights of Matthews or Thayer on what may well be a fool's errand, or to peer in rooms suspiciously at embarrassed residents and their lady friends. If couples want to evade the law, there is little to stop them. "Chaperons" may suggest a stern body of older men who sit stiffly on the edge of their chairs and rivet their eyes on guilty pairs, but they are actually no more than friends from across the hall...
Possibly the University feels that Yard dwellers are too young to be put on their own in the great social game. The chaperon system may be just a fatherly device to protect inexperienced youths from the clutches of unscrupulous females. If that is the case, it seems strange indeed that House residents should be so completely cast adrift on the seas of passion, sustained only by sign-in registers and curfews...
...students from 58 countries gather nightly in its Colonial-style rooms to sip tea, meet new friends, and carry on bull sessions in an atmosphere many degrees more cordial than that at lake Success. Now known as the International Student Center, the pillared, yellow-clapboard house near Radcliffe yard echoed to the first of many non-New England accents in 1941 and became an unofficial consulate that has since eased many foreign students into unfamiliar American ways...
Observers, spiking rumors that the display was Communist-oriented noted that the explosions came from widely scattered and entirely reputable sources. A Student Council agent, scowling at the affray, mentioned the possibility of a combined poll and probe, but Yard police were unimpressed...