Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When I remarked to a young lady at the Yard Concert last night that the cadenees of Allegri's "Mjserero" were well-defined, she said "cadence, shmadence," so we let it go at that. In addition to this work, the Glee Club sang three canons of Mozart, "To Thee Alone Be Glory" by J. S. Bach, and selections of Paine, Webbe, Allegri, Gastoldi, and Piston, all of them with precision and clearness, but they were partly wasted in the Yard, where acoustics are conspicuous by their absence...
...Glee Club's annual tradition of spring Yard concerts will be resumed tonight with a songfest on the steps of Widener, starting at 7 o'clock...
...willingness to hear the whole story, but most 'Cliffedwellers voiced deep dismay at the prospect of "going formal" to a date with a blue book. Customary 'Cliffe garb for exams is an ensemble of beat-up blue jeans, sneakers, and size 40 shirt, which are frowned upon in the Yard...
Other opinions voiced were preference for a small examination group, the "psychological boon" of being free to pace corridors or Yard unaccompanied during exams, and the question whether abandonment of the honor system will injure Student Government...
Typical "examples of awkwardness," she pointed out, include difficulties of juggling two sets of bluebooks, inability of professors to appear at the Harvard exam room and in the 'Cliffe Yard as well, and synchronization needed to deliver two sets of exams in different places at exam time...