Word: yardings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Students who have been smiling over the neat little parking tickets found tacked on cars parked along South street, Mill street, and Holyoke street by Yard Police will get two dollar surprises soon, Colonel Charles L. Apted indicated yesterday...
Another Freshman, when stopped in the Yard for comment, field out into the Square, shouting, 'Gangway, Stillman, here I come...
...past years the History I department has asked for reading notes during the more industrious first few weeks in the fall; the present request has thrown the Yard into considerable confusion...
...when Recorder John Price asked Starter McHugh to sign the affidavit certifying the performance for acceptance by the Amateur Athletic Union, McHugh shook his head, took the pen and wrote, "I certify that it was a false start. Borican, the winner, beat the gun by about one yard." Asked why he had not called the runners back, Veteran McHugh replied: "Truthfully, I don't know...
Elections are defended on the grounds than they provide much needed practice in the democratic process. But forms mean nothing provided the correct spirit is not behind them. Democracy in the Union and the Yard is a mockery. The cynical and frivolous attitude toward democratic forms which this situation produces does greater harm than a complete failure to exercise a democratic prerogative. The opportunity to vote will be offered students under far more auspicious circumstances in later years. In the Yard, however, elections are synonymous with hypocrisy, and freshmen conscious of this will abolish the two together...