Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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PERHAPS you saw him with me in the Yard last week, - a long, thin man dressed in black, with a capacious white felt hat resting soberly on his straight black hair, smooth face, and age anywhere from forty-five to sixty? No, you did n't see him? Well, he looked every inch (and he is some seventy-seven inches high) exactly what he is, the leading deacon of the Smithfield Centre Orthodox Church; one of the bluest of the blue, and a most unrelenting enemy of card-playing, horse-racing, dancing, and the theatre. I trembled...
...indifference of which it has been accused. In order that this organization may prosper as it should, some change must be made that will awaken enthusiasm among its members and the College at large. It is well known how appreciative an audience collects at the many windows in the Yard to listen to the songs and glees of this Club. The Pierian Sodality is not even as well known as the Glee Club. It is true that both the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality give annual concerts in Cambridge; but that they should accomplish no more than this...
...reward. Lost or strayed from a circus passing through Cambridge, a giraffe, about 18 ft. in height. He is supposed to have strayed into the College Yard, and sunk over his head in the mud. The above reward will be paid to any one who discovers his fossile...
Across the Yard, at early morn...
...plod his weary way across the Yard...