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SOMETHING has been written, and more has been said and thought, on the subject of proper fire-escapes for the various buildings in the Yard, but still the Corporation have taken no action in the matter, - at least to all outward seeming. It is incredible that those in office should be so careless of the safety of those under their charge, and so entirely regardless of their feelings and wishes in a matter of such vital importance. The necessity of these means of escape cannot be too strongly urged, and in view of the recent terrible disasters in Brooklyn...
...Faculty of Harvard College, it is reported, have at last consented to receive applications from women for admission to the full privileges of the University. This question has agitated the professors since 1874, but not until recently has there been any action taken upon it." - Boston Advertiser...
...force of the argument that to chop so much ice would be a task of great difficulty. Our tiles, secured after so much exertion, might have been left in the beds where Nature put them, if they have been brought here merely to be imbedded again by the action of the elements. Municipal laws allow a person twenty-four hours in which to have the sidewalks belonging to him cleared. It would be well for us, apparently, if some higher power looked after those whose business it is to see that we have terra firma to walk...
...minutes = 10 1/2 hours, which is rather a long time for men to sit listening to "parts," - and men, too, who have generally been thought to be somewhat interested in the dinner which occurs on that day. For their own interest the "tyrants and oppressors" ought to reconsider their action...
...wisdom of our action in withdrawing from the Rowing Association of American Colleges was proved conclusively, if any proof was needed, by the course pursued in the late Convention of the Association. Three colleges - Cornell, Columbia, and Princeton - were represented, and the most important action taken was a resolution to row hereafter in four-oared instead of six-oared shells. The fear that this backward step would be taken was one of our strongest reasons for leaving the Association, and now we see that our apprehension was no idle fancy. We shall have next summer three separate intercollegiate contests...