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Person who intend to give spreads and wish to roake use of the basement of any college building, must make written application to F. B. Knapp, Esq., Superintendent of Buildings, at least ten days before class...
During the sudden shower yesterday afternoon, many of the spectators took refuge under the willow trees, and in the basement of the Pudding building...
...guests reluctantly took leave. As we passed out at the door, our thoughts were veritably lowered from the sublime to the ridiculous; for a smooth faced youth was there giving out circulars and catalogues to all who left the hall. Men are men everywhere. A church basement is often made into a grocery store; and a delightful evening's entertainment is turned into a means of advertisement and a seeking after pecuniary profit...
...soon collected in front of University, and quickly kindled. As soon, however, as the wood was fairly burning, the nightwatchman appeared on the scene with buckets of water and nearly extinguished the fire. but eighty-eight, nothing daunted, poured on kerosene, and, when the watchman returned to the basement of University to fill his buckets, locked him in. Masters of the field, they now began to feed the fire with barrels, stuffed with shavings and paper saturated with kerosene, cart wheels, filched from a neighboring wheel wright's shop, front gates, fence rails, and in fact anything they could...
...many columns of trash that it is far better to overlook than to read. Yet in the long run, there is a great deal in our leading dailies that well repay careful reading, and preservation. At present these articles are buried in the ponderous, rarely opened volumes in the basement of the library. By the plan under consideration, all that is valuable in American and foreign papers can be collected, placed in a compact form, and properly indexed. All must realize the value of Poole's Index. The plan of "M" would in the end prove a still more valuable...