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Yesterday afternoon the janitor of Holyoke noticed that the entries of the building were filling with smoke, and on investigation discovered a slight blaze in room No. 8. A large easy chair had caught fire from a cigarette, and after smouldering for an hour or more the flame broke out. The smouldering had not been noticed, and at the time when it was discovered no one was in the room. The chair was thrown out the window, so that no further damage resulted except the burning of a small part of the carpet. The smoke from the burning chair, after...
Yale is having an epidemic of fires. The second fire of the week broke out in the president's house, and the students think now they have some chance of obtaining fire-escapes...
...many misfortunes that our freshman eleven has experienced this fall, they have successfully passed through the struggle in which their predecessors have been repeatedly worsted. They have made immense improvement during the past few weeks, and, though they did not score a victory over Yale Saturday, still they broke the clean score of her victories since '77, and of this their class can be proud. The interest shown in our freshman teams has never even approached the corresponding sentiment at Yale. For that reason, chiefly, the blue has succeeded in holding the class championship firmly in its grasp...
...Corey Hill by a long detour, coming around by Brighton, and then down the railroad track half way to Allston, where the bags were left among the stockyards. The hounds were detained five or six minutes, hunting for the bags, which they were finally unable to find; so they broke at this point and came back over the Brighton bridge. The first hound, R. S. Hawes, came in a little over seventeen minutes behind the hares, while the remainder of the pack came in a bunch considerably behind him. Twenty-three men ran. Walker, '84, acted as whipper...
...seconds. The 220 yards dash was taken at 25 seconds from the six yard mark. The mile walk was won in an easy lope after an infliction of 10 minutes and 25 seconds, heel and toe. Mr. Porter prevented the meeting from being a complete success. He broke the record made by himself at the last inter-collegiate contests in the hammer throwing. The distance covered was 87 feet and 11 inches. Great indignation was expressed against the gentleman for so far presuming as to break a record...