Word: yards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...growth has been nurtured by the Superintendent of Caretakers and has been allowed to envelop the intricate problem of student conduct. Administrative officials admit there is no logic in the plan and were considerably surprised to learn that it is impossible to find a set of rules governing the Yard Police...
While it would still be necessary for the Yard Police to quell any disturbance, their activity should cease immediately when it becomes apparent that students should be consulted about the causes of the trouble or the persons involved in it. The officers would merely take the bursars' cards or some other form of identification from every man who might be involved. These names would then be turned in to this disciplinary officer, not to the Superintendent of Caretakers, who would summons all the men and talk with them informally without keeping a record of the visit unless it was apparent...
...Navy Yard...
...small offenses and neglect of duties by the privates and non-commissioned officers. The guilty soldier was formally subjected to a medical examination about his heart and lungs to find how many strokes he could stand. Then, before the sunset a regimental parade was held in the drilling yard of the barracks or on the main square of the camp, the guilty soldier lay prone at the centre on a piece of rush mat or burlap, surrounded by the commanding officers and the rows of the armed units. The regimental band of music begins to play. Two corporals press...
Prosecutor Austin C. Hall, with a Scotland Yard detective at one elbow and an expert on 16th Century British law at the other, seemed to have thoroughly deflated the historical pretense behind the Drake case when his initial address concluded: "Every representation of the defendants was false, and they knew...