Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is a letter, probably ineffectual, to protest the raking of leaves in the Yard. I realize that this is not done maliciously, that the men who do it have good reasons. Therefore, this letter may best be tossed aside...
...dedication ceremonies will begin at three p.m., with an academic procession from the Radcliffe yard across Brattle St. to the terrace entrance of the red brick Georgian graduate building...
...Over a year elapsed before any further steps were taken, but late in 1637 the first Overseers purchased a slip of land from Goodman Peyntree on the southern edge of Cowyard Row. (The present Cambridge Common is all that remains of this great cow pasture.) Around this nucleus the Yard slowly expanded until reaching its present size in the first half of the eighteenth century...
Such generosity allowed Dunster to expand the College's physical plant. At his death the Yard consisted of a strip about 110 feet wide extending from Braintree Street (Massachusetts Avenue) to the Charlestown path (Kirkland Street...
...University was immensely improved during the first part of Kirkland's administration. Holworthy Hall, completed in 1812 from the proceeds of a successful lottery, became the most popular place of residence. University Hall was completed in 1815, and pigs and other undesirable objects were driven out of the Yard to be replaced by elms and a lawn...