Word: yardings
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...third reform we call to mind is not so much a reform as an abolishment; but all appreciate it, and only wonder that a similar step was not taken half a century or so ago. We allude, of course, to the annulment of the law prohibiting smoking in the yard...
These, then, are our long-looked-for reforms. A resignation by the Sophomores of their time-honored prerogatives; forty cents' worth of old examination-papers done up in book-form; the right to smoke in the holy precincts of the Yard without scandalizing the feelings of some conscientious proctor; and as a climax to this remarkable category, men who are averse to cuts, and have been heard audibly to growl when an occasional one has been given, are to be informed that they may cut whenever they please...
...limbs slightly shook with emotion as he passed on his way through the "Yard...
...wish to suggest, what is not at all a new idea, that when students are amenable to the civil authorities they be left to them to be dealt with, that in cases of mere disorder in the yard or rooms the penalties be done away with. No one, I think, has noticed that smoking in the yard has become more frequent since the abolition of the rule against it. That the same result would follow in the case of disorder is probable...
...distinctly remember about him, for his body seemed ghost-like and unreal enough. It was like the eye of any old man, weak and watery, while he described my Hollis room as he knew it once with its sanded floor and two wooden chairs; or while he pictured the Yard with its five buildings, deserted but for an occasional boy in a long, bag-tailed black coat, three-cornered hat, and knee-breeches, running from room to room; or the President's cows feeding in the long grass and drinking from the pool of water that gathered where University...