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There has been altogether too much fire-cracker enthusiasm in the yard this week...
...five minutes after ten last evening the sullen fire-cracker sounded its note of alarm in the yard. Windows were hastily opened and anxious heads thrust out; hurrying crowds gathered at the scene. A bright light illuminated the eastern side of the quadrangle, and in dangerous proximity to University Hall the devouring element, vomiting forth smoke and flame from a half dozen tar barrels, well stuffed with cannon crackers, cast a lurid glare over the spectators. Proctors rushed to the scene. The everready Cambridge fire department, represented by an aged man with a leaky bucket of water, promptly appeared...
...cost is about two dollars a foot for a six-inch bore, which would supply all needs of the yard. The depth probably would not exceed fifty feet at the most, as there is a well near Church street which strikes water at forty feet. F. A. Kennedy, the cracker baker in Cambridgeport, supplies his extensive establishment with a six inch well of thirty feet in depth. There are three or four other artesian wells in Cambridge, none of which run over sixty feet in depth. As the ground where the university now stands was at one time a marsh...
...Cheaply." It is written by a high-rank man, and evidently embodies the fruits of his own experiments. Its object is not only to show how to live cheaply, but also how to regulate the diet so as to economize time for studying. It is with this purpose that cracker and milk is made the staple article of food, while meat is restricted to Sundays. For, according to medical advice, studying should not begin after an ordinary meal for an hour; while with this diet digestion will be far enough advanced to permit studying in fifteen minutes. But the author...