Word: yardings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...train rolling over the international bridge below Niagara Falls, a King of England will enter the U. S. for the first time. For U. S. detectives, a day last week was historic. In the U. S. for the first time arrived the chief detective of Scotland Yard on active duty...
...Lined up on Massachusetts Avenue, grinning obscenely down over Harvard Yard, there is a row of intellectual brothels. Every year they are patronized by two-thirds of the student body; every year they flout with greater insolence the decency and respectability of this college. . . . They are making a mockery of a Harvard education, a lie of a Harvard diploma...
Object of this outburst, the like of which had not been seen in the Yard for many a year, was Harvard's tutoring schools. It was not the first attack on them.* But it was by all odds the noisiest and most determined. First step in the Crimson'?, campaign was to announce that it would no longer accept tutoring-school advertising. Loss to the Crimson: $2,000 a year. The Crimson proceeded to make sensational charges...
Last week, for the first time in 27 years, it was a rainy Patriots' Day. Less than 100,000 spectators lined the 26-mile, 385-yard route, from the little town of Hopkinton-via Natick, Wellesley and Newton -to the Boston A. A. clubhouse on Exeter Street. But the rain that was responsible for the smallest turnout in many years was also responsible for a new record in the annals of the ancient sport of foot racing...
...grantee building in on Massachusetts Avenue, facing the Yard...