Word: patch
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...along the western border of the present Yard, and at the corner of Harvard square was a hill on which a sentry watched continually. The College woodpile was on the site of University Hall and the field on which Sever Hall was built was a swamp and huckle-berry patch. There were several wooden buildings on the hill by the square of which Wadsworth House still remains...
...THACHER, Sec.HARVARD ADVOCATE.- The photograph of the Harvard Advocate will be taken at Patch's studio Monday, June 4, at 12.30 o'clock...
...Smith's descriptions were most vivid and clear. What, said he, could be more picturesque than an old fence, every fibre of which has been whitened and softened by wind and rain until it shines like finely woven silk? The weeds cluster in the patches of earth at its foot, worms eat their way through every splinter, and where some particularly ugly old stump disturbs the eye a little bit of vine peeps gaily over the top and offers its services to hide this blot and leaves at its death a golden patch of color...
tfLOST. - A rough haired foxterrier; white with black patch over right eye. Finder will receive reward by returning same...
...necessary work on it. The managers, however, disclaim all responsibility for the present state of affairs. If no one manager feels that he has the right to put the field in some sort of decent condition, we suggest that they all get together and try to patch up affairs among them. The college does not care who attends to the matter; it simply insists that someone shall give the class and scrub teams a chance to play baseball...