Word: yards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tercentenary celebration last year, President Conant spoke eloquently for the promulgation of scholarship and the free and unbiased search for truth. In the old yard, under the rain-drenched elms, where the statue of John Harvard contemplates the Cambridge scene, thousands of alumni rose and cheered as the three-hundred-year-old banner of Harvard, bearing the motto, "Veritas", was raised...
...passion which has resulted in the cropping up here and there, mostly here, of a Model League of Nations, a Model Constitutional Convention, a Model Supreme Court, a Model Congress, a Model Parliament, and others, the small beginnings of what may, in time, become a great institution, the Model Yard Concert...
...final strains of "Fair Harvard", sung by the Glee Club et al, were dwindling off and mingling in concord with the towering spires of Memorial, Sever, and Weld Halls. The soothing clutches of night were clasping the Yard in its soft embrace, for lack of anything better...
...polls will open Monday morning in the Yard buildings with voting also taking place in the Houses and Dudley Hall at luncheon and dinner...
...Only the older graduates remember Professor Hill, the associate of Charles Eliot Norton, Nathaniel Shailer and their contemporaries. Dean Briggs, who died only three years ago, was known to--and loved by--the undergraduates of the last sixty years. Even in retirement his ambling figure was familiar in the yard, and his bashful smile and warm heart won instantaneous response. To study composition in his English 5 was the ambition of nearly all undergraduates who looked forward to writing as a career, and many an author and journalist of America today is proud to be listed among the pupils...