Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this end, they plant bombs all over town, then phone anonymous tips to Scotland Yard. The bobbies bob up in the lion house at the zoo, the Albert Memorial. At one point, they even invade a ladies' loo. By the time a call comes to defuse a bomb in the Tower, the Yard's guard is down, and the boys, disguised as demolition experts, easily lift the loot. Caught and incarcerated in the Tower, at film's end the culprits are conspiring to commit more sibling revelry-an escape that will make their big crime seem small...
Harvard apparently doesn't believe the Union is bluffing, either. Yesterday it ordered the B&G men to begin setting up the sound and lighting systems in the Yard for Commencement. This work, which is done by the BGMA men, usually does not begin until June...
...Press pitched into the University's fund-raising activities. As part of the Program for Harvard College it published "College in a Yard: Minutes by Thirty-Nine Harvard Men," a collection of noted alumni's writings on "What Harvard Has Meant to Me." Among the contributors were Brooks Atkinson, Van Wvck Brooks '08, John Dos Passos '16, John P. Marquand '15, Elward Streeter '14, and John F. Kennedy...
...freshmen tried again, and once more they failed to produce a riot. At about midnight, a group of students set off fire crackers in the Yard, and as proctors poked their heads out of doors, the freshmen set off for the Commons...
Thirty made it through the gate at the north end of the Yard, and an equal number squeezed through a gap in the fence at the corner of Mower after the gate was closed. When they got to the Commons, the freshmen didn't know what to do, so they yelled, ran, and played hide-and-go-seek with the police. Bursars cards were taken, and the would-be rioters skulked back into the Yard through the hole near Mower...