Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average rent for freshman suites will also rise, from about $195 to the new single rent of $215 per term. No price distinction will be made between newer rooms in the Prescott St. dormitories and the older Yard buildings, a major policy change from the previous system of 27 different rents...
There will be "no Gold Coast" in the Yard, Frank H. White '55, assistant Dean of Freshmen, noted, due to the single rent scale. "We will have greatly increased flexibility in assigning rooms, since we will not have to try and fit financial need and suite price...
...approximately one a.m. a flaming ashcan appeared in the center of the yard. Soon, fifteen Cambridge firemen came rushing from their nocturnal slumbers to quench the celebration. Armed with two pumpers and a rescue unit, the men made quick work of the inferno as five firefighters overturned the container and the rest flooded its contents...
...complicated in Poe's case by multiple miscasting. The gentleman, the lover, the adventurer, all cut absurd figures behind the back of Poe the poet. His sense of vocation as poet and fabulist never deserted him. It did not fail him even when Allan had him measuring yard-goods in the store, when he "ran away to sea," served as a private, and it survived the debacle at West Point. "Lion ambition is chained down," he wrote in his Tamerlane, which was run off by a printer pal while Poe was doing duty in the quartermaster's office...
...letter to the Council, von Stade cited the "relative youth of the students involved" and the difficulty of controlling the numerous exits of Yard dormitories in explaining the Board's decision. To the Council's suggestion that each proctor patrol several proctoral units one weekend a month, he replied that this is not a proper function of proctors...