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...recent fire in Thayer brings forcibly to mind the general lack of "fire-escapes" throughout the College buildings. It is not generally known, we believe, that a fire-extinguisher can be found in every Proctor's room, but in case of a severe fire the occupants of the upper rooms in every building would have hard work to get down, and we trust some remedy may be found to lessen the present risk...
...resolved that the Harvard Library and philosophical apparatus be removed to Andover. A meeting of the Corporation in July voted that a public Commencement was impracticable, and that degrees be conferred by a general diploma; and soon after the Overseers voted to remove the College to Concord, having found, on examination, that one hundred and twenty-five students could be boarded in that place. Part of the library and apparatus were taken to Concord, and the students endured the inconveniences of the place as best they could for fourteen months...
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...Anderson School of Natural History, as to make a statement of its present standing and prospects generally acceptable. Through the courtesy of its Director, we are now in possession of the material necessary to such a statement. At the close of last summer season at Penikese it was found that, though doing a great work, the School was threatened with financial difficulties. This at first occasioned no serious alarm to the Trustees, as they had been led to expect that Mr. Anderson, its founder, would look out for the School for three years from 1874; on the presentation...
...Trustees did not abandon the School; but as early as January last issued a circular stating that any decisive arrangements for the coming season would be postponed until the first of May. In April another circular was issued, a copy of which will be found in the Magenta for April 23; in this it was stated that the Trustees had found themselves at the end of the means at their disposal, and to carry on the School it was proposed to charge a fee of fifty dollars. This circular was followed, early in May, by another, naming the length...