Word: yards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scotland Yard fails to prevent a murder, even though the killer ballyhoos his deed in advance. Furthermore the only hint as to the culprit's identity is given by Author Bush, smart manufacturer of alibis, in his prologue. The book was selected by the Crime Club jury for September...
...clock the cadets will form again in the Yard and start their march to Soldiers Field through the Class of 1877 Gate back of Widener Library, and turn left on Massachusetts Avenue. They will then follow Bow, Arrow, and DeWolfe Streets to the Parkway across the Weeks Bridge and turn right on Soldiers Field Road to Gate 20 of the Stadium...
Arriving in the Beacon Park Yards, Allston, at 11 o'clock this morning, the West Point Cadets will form military array on Cambridge Street heading east. The parade will follow Cambridge Street to Soldiers Field Road, where it will turn left to Anderson Bridge; cross the bridge and follow Boylston Street to the Yard by way of Johnston Gate, opposite the Unitarian Church. At this point the companies will be dismissed for luncheon, in two groups...
...that the Yard will presently have its autumn bronze and gold mixed with the gray of uniforms during the few minutes that mark the yearly visit of the West Pointers, he realizes what a tradition the Army game has acquired in the short time it has become again a feature of the Harvard football season. The Vagabond for one has come to look forward to it as one of the few colorful interludes in the college year, and once it has come and gone the noises and the smells that afflict a university around which a crowded city has grown...
...taste and, public decency. There is obviously heavy drinking in connection with the Pudding running and there is reason to believe that this public display or drinking and its unfortunate results are sanctioned and even encouraged by those managing the initiations. Women students are regularly seen in the Yard and in the class room buildings. It is an affront to them and a slur upon Harvard that they are forced to run a gauntlet of drunken glances, bawdy ballads, and obscene recitations in order to attend their lectures...