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...college buildings 1.67 per month. As to precautions against fire, iron doors are considered very safe, but are in reality very dangerous, as a hot fire will cause them to curl within five minutes, leaving an open space at the top and bottom for the fire to enter. The best doors are made of strong planks covered with tin, and will withstand a fire for hours...
Granite is a very bad material for construction, as it will crumble when exposed to great heat. The cheapest and most simple protection against fire is to put a horizontal cut-off in the hollow walls between the stories. This will cause the fire to enter the room, where it can be seen and attended to. If this simple expedient should be generally tried, and the floors carried to the outer walls, probably at least twenty-five per cent. of the losses now experienced would be done away with...
Politics should enter more largely into the American college curriculum. It is plain that in this way alone can the standard of politics in this country be raised. The tendency of modern life is every day running towards specialization, and this tendency will undoubtedly soon be a factor in political life. In England and Germany men fit themselves specially for politics, just as others do for medicine and law. Many schools have been founded specially to prepare for the civil service examinations. The introduction of civil service reform in this country will soon necessitate such special preparation here. The universities...
Thirty-two of the present senior class at Exeter are preparing to enter Harvard...
...Page, '83, H. M. Ayars, '86, F. S. Parker, '86, W. A. Stebbins, '86. Mr. Page won the middle-weight championship last week and it was expected that he would have rather an easy time of it with his lighter competitors. O. G. Smith, '83, who intended to enter in this event and who would undoubtedly have made a hard fight for the cup, was prevented from contesting by severe illness. The first bout was between W. A. Stebbins and W. H. Page. Stebbins was very tall for his weight, and had an exceedingly long reach, which stood...