Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spring snow still lingered on the broad slopes of the St. Lawrence and on the heights of Quebec, Their Majesties' debarkation point. Scotland Yard men busily spotted cranks and radicals, gave last-minute tips to Dominion constabulary on how to guard their King and Queen. Four royal maroon Royal automobiles, two long (155-inch wheelbase), fur-rugged Buicks, a Chrysler and a Ford, were ready for Their Majesties and one toured Quebec's narrow crooked streets, testing sharp turns. Priests and nuns rehearsed 25,000 school children for a pageant of greeting to Their Majesties on the Plains...
...Reserve Board's production index, the cotton textile industry is composed of 1,000 desperately competitive and generally unprofitable mills. About the only check on production the industry knows is the capacity of its warehouses. As long ago as last October the warehouses held over 150,000,000 yards of print cloth, about three times as much 'as was sold that month. But the mills, as is their habit, kept operating at close to top speed, meanwhile losing up to ¼? on each yard they loomed. Cotton cloth output in March was 48% above the same month...
...annual triangular Harvard Yale Princeton debate, one half of the Yard- ling forensic squad meets a Tiger yearling trio in the Upper Common Room of the Union tonight at 7:45. Three other members of the team travel to New Haven and will argue against an Ell Freshman squad tonight...
...shadows lengthened beneath the stately Plympton Street elms and the evening breeze whispered through the leaves, dignified Harvard men, strolling along the green paths of the ancient Yard, murmured to one another, "Ah, yes, 23 to 2, I understand...
...realistic solution of this dilemma would mean a compromise between numbers and the ideal of extra-curricular learning. If President Conant is still anxious for large numbers of Harvard men to be bathed in America's past, let the Program catch the Freshmen as they enter the Yard, fresh and eager to try their intellectual wings. Let the farcical Bliss Prizes be abolished and the money be given for the best Freshman essays on some phase of American civilization. This year's successful tie-up with English A can be extended to other Freshman courses, and will undoubtedly draw...