Word: yards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the various reputed attractions of a university town are its handsome editices and well-kept grounds. For the most part Harvard's buildings have been constructed with some attempt to please the eye, and the daily pick-up of all wayward cigarette stubs along the walks of the Yard would do justice to a royal lawn. But the care bestowed by the university on other parts of its property is very different...
Harvard is justly proud of its Yard and its historic monuments. Must the care of other university property shame the college, in the eyes of the public...
Policeman and officer searched diligently. Two hundred yards from the empty sentry box they discovered a rifle, and the huge fur headpiece of the sentinel, lying like some dead beast in the bushes. Detectives from Scotland Yard joined the search, but no trace of the scarlet-coated, white-belted sentry could be found...
...happy moment for the devotees of the "little theatre movement" when a few days ago Eva LeGallienne, famed director of the New York Civic Repertory, figuratively tweaked the beard of the Admiral of the Boston Navy Yard. Although the Admiral is a willing sponsor of organizations charitable and organizations artistic, his patriotism made him blanch with horror at the thought of including within the sphere of art, that which the artist confessed to be Communistic...
...universities have their own fine traditions and individuality. The very picture of the older buildings in Harvard Yard, of Connecticut Hall at Yale and of Nassau Hall here at Princeton have about them a charm and tradition that calls to mind almost poignantly the older America of Colonial days. These colleges were nurtured in a sturdy and rugged individualism and a sound scholarship that is the pride of these institutions. But I must confess that I have somewhat the feeling that I would if they were to substitute a Gothic tower for the Capitol dome when I see the Gothic...