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...thing, and have organized a fire company closely modeled upon those to which men belong. "That the Girton girls should endeavor to fit themselves to put out their own fires is, of course, laudable. Although there is no danger that Girton College will be set on fire by careless smokers, it is still always possible that a student absorbed in midnight study may accidentally set fire to her front hair and by hurriedly throwing it away may kindle a fire threatening the whole building...
...Pale and sallow, lanky and awkward, with straight hair cut short and put back from a high forehead on which there were already many wrinkles, she looked a plain, unhealthy woman, her shoulders had the student's stoop, and her movements were constrained and full of gaucherie. She was careless, almost slovenly in her dress; but I mentally excused all this in her feeling sure that her concersation would be brilliant enough to make amends for all her other shortcomings. But what was my surprise when I found that she had scarcely anything to say for herself. Her conversation consisted...
...return the ball, but we would remind the halfbacks that Princeton men are proverbial for the way in which they follow after the ball, and such an error would be more fatal than is perhaps imagined in an important game. The reshers block fairly well, but have grown somewhat careless, and have allowed some of the college men to get through when a try-at-goal is being attempted. They should remember that blocking the Harvard or Princeton eleven, are somewhat different matters, and also that good blocking is one half the rushers'game...
...cause of the accident seems to be very plain. The whole affair is due to the careless construction of the platform. The upper platform was supported by pillars running from the platform below which in turn rested on a transverse beam. This beam rested on the top of a strong pile, which was driven into the soft, muddy bottom of the river. In the first place the pile upon which the whole structure rested was never driven in until it struck a solid foundation, but was merely inserted in holes dug in the mud for the purpose. Upon this pile...
...college. This interest amounted to about four hundred and eighty dollars a year. All repairs were made by the college who took entire charge of the boat houses. The whole structure is built in the most wretched fashion, having been repaired time and again in a most careless manner with old and worthless lumber. That the accident must have occurred sooner or later, there seems to be no doubt, and that it did not happen at high tide, and was not attended with much more unpleasant circumstances is cause for congratulations to the entire college...