Word: yards
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...would naturally infer that the Yard would now wear a deserted air, - and he would be right...
OWING to the thoughtful and energetic efforts of the President to keep order in the Yard at whatever sacrifice of dignity, the few solitary residents during the last week have enjoyed the conversation of the cultivated and affable Port peeler on their very doorsteps...
...started for breakfast at Professor Lowell's. A few, unable to endure the fatigue of so long a tramp, seated themselves in horse-cars or cabs, and took their ease on their way to Elmwood. About twelve o'clock they reappeared in the Square, and marched around the Yard, cheering the buildings in the old-fashioned way. The undergraduates gave them nine cheers in front of University, and after a chorus in front of Holworthy the Class separated...
During the next two hours the students strolled about the Yard, gazing at such Yale men as from time to time made their appearance, and waiting until it should be time to go to the match. Those who found friends among the Yale men showed them the sights of Harvard, and those who had never seen Yale men before were surprised to find them so much like other people. Of betting there was very little. By two o'clock the seats around the ball-field began to fill, and the crowd, consisting largely of ladies, was amused by the band...
...eight o'clock the Yard was very brilliantly lighted with Chinese lanterns, a crimson arch over the entrance opposite University being a new feature in the illumination. The crowd, after promenading or sitting in the windows during the singing of the Glee Club, little by little departed for the President's reception and Memorial Hall, where the band was playing for dancing. At the spreads there did not seem to be as many ladies as last year, but the hall was as full as it could well hold, and many couples took the opportunity to retreat to the theatre, which...