Word: yards
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...students, who have always been very gentlemanly in all their transactions with this office, by giving them equal mail facilities with townspeople, and if the carrier's way can be made bright, it will afford me great pleasure to institute a fourth delivery of mail in the College Yard at once...
...besides being extremely questionable in point of taste. We hope that the Advocate can survive the severe grind it contains. Among the items we learn that a Young Men's Infidel Association has been started, with a membership of thirty. O wicked, depraved Cornell! A pigsty in the college yard is bad enough, but an Infidel Association is far worse. What will the Niagara Index...
...those dull days of dull Cambridge, when all the life of the sober old city seemed to have departed with the students, when the grass in the College Yard was knee-high, when there was absolutely nothing to do and nobody to do it, that I took refuge in the Library. Even here, in this sanctuary of learning and of wit, there was an oppressive feeling of loneliness. It seemed like a sacrilege to disturb the deep silence by pushing open the creaking doors. The books stared me out of countenance, and the busts glared...
...breeze laden with sweet-scented hay then timidly asked if they would be allowed to walk around the College Yard, and seemed delighted to learn that such a liberty would most assuredly be allowed them. An idea crossed my mind; would they not need a guide? Doubtless! I would offer my services. I wished that I was better posted in the history of the College; but I could easily fill up the gaps by a little invention besides, the breeze laden with sweet-scented hay would teach me eloquence. I drew nearer to the party...
...fifth-mile track will probably be the size selected. This size of track has many advantages over any other: it is less expensive to make; is more interesting for the spectators; is large enough for bicycle races; the back-stretch is just the length to run 100-yard dashes and hurdle races on, and should be made of extra width with this end in view. Stones should be sunk in the earth to mark the start and finish of the 100-yards; the 220-yards; 120-yards hurdles, with stones to mark the position of each hurdle, quarter-mile...