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...University has been given its thirty days. A State Building Inspector, who last week made a tour of Shepherd Hall, has required that within a month some action be taken toward the improvement of this building...
Alterations must be made in Shepherd Hall, one of the University's dormitories for dropped Freshmen at 31 Holyoke Street, before the State Building Inspector will approve it any longer as a place of residence, it was learned last night from reliable sources. Within the next month steps will be taken to lessen the fire hazard, which was the chief objection raised by the Inspector in his examination of the building on Thursday afternoon...
Officials at Lehman Hall, in charge of dormitory accommodations stated that the University cannot afford to replace Shepherd Hall at the present time, and the building is not considered of sufficient value to warrant extensive repairs. The system of fire-doors, which the Inspector held to be inadequate, will be improved, and an attempt will be made to lessen the other fire hazards caused by the wooden construction and external wiring...
...Chancellor was born to the wife of an Austrian customs inspector on the German frontier of Austria in 1889. Shy, nervous and inclined to keep to himself, Adolf was encouraged by his mother to do watercolors. In his 'teens he became an orphan, went to Vienna, tried to be a painter, became a builder's helper ("house painter" to his critics) and emigrated to Munich with $4 in his pocket rather than perform his Austrian compulsory military service...
Bravely overcoming Anglo-Saxon prejudice, Admiral Kelly absorbed the piece of tail that was his portion, suffered no ill effect. A bit of the neck went to Chu Chao-hsin, Inspector General of Foreign Affairs in the Canton Government, who ate it with relish and promptly died. Doctors opined that he had swallowed a bit of "poisonous bone," doubtless poisoned by gland secretion...