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...work on the quin-quennial catalogue will be done this year by Mr. Tillinghast of the library, as Mr. Sibley is incapacitated by age...
...fire escapes, why not hand grenades? This is an age of improvements and this university is, or makes frequent claims to be, the patron of all things progressive. We have the latest novelties in elective systems, the latest in many other things and, we are loath to say it, the latest novelties in faculty interference with athletics. Why not the latest preventative for fires? Several years ago the authorities, tired of being reminded that the lives of the students under their charge were in imminent danger in case of fire, had a trial of fire escapes to appease the clamors...
...committee for further action. We are not informed as to the nature of the proposed amendment, but cannot refrain from expressing the hope that any changes made may be in the direction of reform,-that the attendance upon Sunday service of all students over 21 years of age may be made purely voluntary...
...spirit of Harvard is essentially a spirit of nonchalance. They who regard us with an eye that is rather critical than kind, call this disposition to restfulness, Harvard indifference. But the reproach of indifference can no longer be justly made against us. The age of change is at hand. We have a Chess club. Not long ago the members of '88 who are interested in chess, initialed into life what they imagined would be known as the Chess Club of '88. But the University grasped the idea and spread over the new born child the mantle of the 'Varsity...
Prof. Eustis was the son of an army officer, Gen. Eustis, who had graduated from Harvard in 1804. He was born at Fort Independence, Boston Harbor on Feb. 1, 1819, and was consequently not quite 66 years old at the time of his death. At the early age of 15 he entered Harvard and graduated with the class 1838. He at once entered the Military Academy at West Point from which he graduated four years later, the head scholar of his class. This rank entitled him to a position in the Engineer Corps of the army with which he served...