Word: yards
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...matriculated. The College was founded by a vote of the General Court in the fall of 1636; but owing to an Indian war and a female agitator the actual opening was delayed almost two years. Early in 1638 the Board of Overseers purchased for the College a house and yard in "Cow-yard Row", where the natives of the "Newetown" parked their cattle at night. When the name of Newetown was changed to Cambridge, the citizens were so pleased that they granted the College a slice of the "Ox Pasture" that included the sites of Hollis, Stoughton, and Holworthy Halls...
...covered by Massachusetts Avenue, is in front of the west end of Wigglesworth Hall. Its foundations were uncovered when the Cambridge subway was excavated, and their corners are marked in the street paving by two L-shaped rows of red brick. Behind the house, in the former cow-yard, which as early as 1638 was called the College Yard, Professor Eaton set out apple trees, and surrounded them by a high fence to exclude the neighbors' cows and keep the Freshmen...
...June Harvard students of the Naval R. O. T. C. Unit embarked on the battleship "Arkansas" and the destroyer "Roper" at the Boston Navy Yard...
...Daughters. Green caught two short aerials, one from ace wingback Torby Macdonald and the other from tailback Austy Harding, both for scores. Daughters was the proverbial bulwark on defense and set the stage for one score when he Larry Kellied a scrub fumble on the four-yard stripe...
...Yard, workmen separted bricks from mortar as they saved every bit of the Harvard Hall chimney they could find, for it is irreplacable. The bricks, lumber, and even nails are all hand made and duplicate cannot be obtained in this...