Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tayler attributes the fast start of this year's program to what he calls "increased spirit in the Yard." This showed itself again in the November cross-country meet when 121 freshmen--more than 10 per cent of the class--competed in the race. The figure was 50 higher than the previous record...
...Stephen Cushman, "you can be alone all you want." Although the walls are thin, the dorm is quiet, and "when there's noise, everyone makes it," Cushman said. Some of the 17 study in Lamont, but most study in the dorm, where it is "quieter than in the Yard," James R. Murphy claims...
...inexorable wisdom of State Street and the Yard, however, the colony idea has been peremanently tabled, no doubt as an extreme breach of propriety. Meanwhile another proposal has been made to the University which should gain much more serious consideration. Sponsored by the Fund for the Advancement of Education, this more plausible suggestion would found a new regional college from the regular faculties of several existing institutions, ranging in size and and character from a small women's college to universities like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. The purpose of the plan would be to experiment with new educational ideas...
Since one-quarter of the letters that come to Cambridge 38, are headed for the University, a large part of the office's man power is concerned with getting this mail distributed to the various parts of the University. There is one route devoted entirely to the Yard, and several routes contain parts of the Yard within their boundaries. One of these boasts a carrier who greets the students each morning in French, and although he can not be fairly described as the "average" mailman, he is certainly another one of the office's "distinctive features...
...Tsarapkin, deputy representative of the USSR in the United Nations, to be placed on one of the spires of the new Moscow University. At this, the 'Poon became irritated, and demanded that the Russians return Thresky. Petitions protesting the 'Poon's breach of international courtesy were circulated in the Yard and at Radcliffe, but a 'Poon delegation raced to New York and retrieved their prize from the confused Russians...