Word: yards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mother was driving their car through the Yard and wished to ask the way to Grays Hall. She know it must be grey, and, upon seeing some grey steps, she stopped...
After seven years of professorial and student grumbling, the university has removed the curbings at the ends of the walks within the yard and substituted gentle slopes, or ramps--no chance now for the absent-minded professor, walking blithely along with his head in the air, to trip and fall...
...many painful autums at least one person has pondered the plight of the friendless Freshman who reaches the Yard with a bag in one hand and shaking fingers in the other. It is hard for the popular Andoverite or Grotonian to understand the feeling of complete, bitter solitude which assails countless new students the first few days of their college career. The Union has tried to mitigate this condition by providing an excellent buffet supper on registration day, served by waitresses with motherly smiles. What with the awful immensity of Memorial Hall and the complexities of the registration card, University...
Even more extensive additions were made to Sever Hall, across the Yard. To comply with public safety regulations, the stairway on the south, or Widener end of the building was made continuous from the first to the third floors, and an emergency exit was provided at the south end. At the north, or Memorial Church end, a new stairway for emergency use only was built, and a new, emergency exit was cut into the northeast corner of the building to serve the assembly room, Sever 11. Further an additional stairway from the third floor corridor to the fourth was constructed...
...Library, located in the heart of the Yard, maintains exhibits changed at regular intervals throughout the year, in the basement, and first and second floor hallways. Also displays are shown in the Widener room, the Theatre room and fourth floor hall, as well as the Poetry Room, also on the fourth floor...