Word: yards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britannica and the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. He is colorblind, cannot drive a car. Once, walking with his brother in Boston, he saw a golf club in a store window. They bought it, went home and looked up golf in the encyclopedia, then experimented in the back yard with the one club, a ball and two tomato cans...
...time should be set aside for one and final registration. On these days should come a public proclamation of the times and places for seeing the faculty. Only some clear-cut plan like this will end the "wandering tribe" of undergraduates who pace for the two months through the yard, their writing fingers bound in gauze and their eyes glued to the ground for the sight of an instructor's spoor...
...preceding the Tercentenary celebrations and later during the festivities themselves, several thousand persons visited Cambridge, and were escorted by undergraduates through almost all the college buildings. Although these undergraduate guides gave interesting, well-informed lectures on the various Houses, the Law School buildings, and the old edifices in the Yard, the most popular tour was always the trip to see the glass flowers in the Peabody Museum. Both the young and the old from all parts of the country had heard of these famous imitation flowers, and usually expressed a desire to see them before anything else...
Canvassers will also attempt to secure textbooks for the Brooks House Library, according to Dennett. Representatives in each House will conduct the drive among upperclassmen, while the P. B. H. Freshman Committee will cover Yard dormitories...
...maid in Wadsworth, who was the only eye witness, and Colonel Apted of the Yard police, refused to comment...