Word: yards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...useful he is! He digs for the grub of the June bug that eats the roots of the grass. That is why he tears up the lawn. A skunk in the front yard and a crow on the ridgepole is grass insurance...
That University Hall was once the largest heating plant in the University, that at present the College Yard is catacombed with an extensive series of heating funnels, eight feet wide and eight feet high, and that the Weeks Memorial Bridge was constructed with the principal idea in view of carrying heat conduits to the Business School, are among the interesting facts gathered in a recent survey of Harvard's heating system...
...judge was made a waiter in the mess hall; the preacher was given the task of cleaning the chapel each day; the bartender was put to washing dishes; the pugilist was made a fireman in the power house; the masseur was given the job of manicuring the yard; and the pretzel peddler was assigned to the scavenger cart...
...each. At Harvard we are always reminded of the city. The subway and the traffic in the crowded streets remind us a thousand times a day that a great city is near. Pedestrianism is fast becoming impossible. If the wary walker manages to elude the traffic that girdles the Yard, he takes his life in his hands when he strolls by the Charles. Let him walk in the Fenway, in Jamaica., or to the pond near Belmont, he is always aware that the city is about him. Only a little part of Cambridge now remains unspoilt. I recall looking...
Inspired as he may be by his mission of bringing light into whatever intellectual shadows of doubt can be admitted to exist in and about the Yard, the Vagabond is of too sensitive a nature to remain long indifferent to popular sentiment. For some days he has been noticing a distinct lessening of the bond of sympathy between himself and the rest of the college, and yesterday he realized that it had dissipated entirely when a comprehensive exposition of the relative merits of three rival ten o'clocks was interrupted by an entirely irrelevant query as to whether eight minutes...