Word: yards
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SCENE IN THE YARD. - Inquisitive old lady, visiting the College, to obliging Freshman. - What do you call that yaller church...
...James hopes to secure a larger attendance than there has hitherto been, especially as the lectures treat of the less technical part of the Natural History 2 of last year, which then proved so popular. It is only to be regretted that the lectures cannot be given in the Yard...
...gift is to the College; and as an expensive building must be put up, an Art Museum certainly has the strongest claim. Before the new building is begun, it is to be hoped that a definite plan (irrespective of existing buildings, if need be) for the buildings of the Yard may be agreed upon...
June 20. - Class Day. Dress-coats at a premium; spreads; girls and fireworks in the Yard...
...more comfortably lodged elsewhere for half the price. This is true, not of this building alone, but of nearly all those owned by the University, which through the years of hard times has not abated its price in the least. Consequently the number of students who room outside the Yard is annually increasing, and it will not be surprising if the number of vacant college rooms increases proportionately, unless a fairer policy is instituted. The College, with its many endowments and its untaxed property, should be contented to realize a moderate income from the students, and should not expect...