Word: yards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every move which tends to integrate the isolated residents of the Yard with the main body of the college should be supported and encouraged. Recently the bars to advanced courses were let down to entice qualified freshmen. The new meal plan ties up as action along the same general line. Together these changes should secure greater contact and make the plunge from the atmosphere and scholastic requirements of the Yard to that of House life less sudden...
...University has its own subway cable car crossing Mass. Ave. The top of the Boston subway tube is but two feet under the surface of the street, and through this two feet must pass Harvard's main heating tunnel from the Houses to the Yard...
According to Scotland Yard and the French Surete Nationale, M. Roger Marcel Vernon, one of the few white slavers ever to escape from Devil's Island and resume slaving, flew from Paris to London last week with trusted henchmen to supervise the murder of "Ginger Max" Kassel...
...Hecht and Kay Boyle are as different as slot machine and peephole. Readers who like their money's worth of entertainment will drop their nickel in Author Hecht; those who want life in the psychological raw will squint through the fence at Author Boyle's queer back yard...
...Vienna won the 1935 0. Henry Short Story Award, shows how geography alters cases. Author Boyle's heroic hero is a Nazi, but in Austria. Critics of Kay Boyle think she takes a perverse, malicious interest in abnormal people, and most of the denizens of her back yard are indeed a queer lot. Most normal seem blood relations to characters out of D. H. Lawrence or Katherine Mansfield. Her stories are glimpses of people rather than peep shows of action, and often do not "make sense." Yet even her slyest grotesques are recognizably, though often cruelly, human. Some...