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Several correspondents have urged us to make a final appeal to the faculty, or a systematic attack on the janitor, for more heat and less darkness in the chapel. It is, unfortunately, too early to insert our stereotyped editorial on heating the chapel, as there is a rule of the paper which forbids its use oftener than once a month. We, therefore, pass over the old grievance this time, and turn to the new complaint which has been made. The chapel, it is said, is too dark to allow the reading of psalms without injury to the eyes. We therefore...
FOUND.-An umbrella late last night near Stoughton pump. Apply at Janitor's room in Stoughton...
...grounds of the famous Tufts, a college which rumor says has only a couple dozen on so of students, which however supports a nine, eleven, and I know not how many other athletic organizations. We look at the noble buildings of this great college, hunt up the president-faculty-janitor, and get him to show us about and let us into the new chapel-and Tufts may well boast of having the prettiest chapel for miles around. However, we have to tear ourselves away at last from the great Tufts, and are soon descending the hill. As we return...
...from an expensive spree, and makes the halls echo to "Michael Roy," is unpleasant and not uncommon; the man upstairs who is getting up his muscle, and who dreps thirty pound dumbbells on the floor, is another variety. All tend to perfect repose and rest of mind. The janitor making the fires at 4 A. M., the click of the letter box in the early morning, and the peripatetic student overhead, who studies by the lap, are minor and soothing noises." We thank Snodkins for his courtesy; rise, bid him adieu, and leave the room just in time to hear...
...library at night, and one of the professors has shown that by lighting the library, gymnasium, and Memorial Hall with electricity, the college would save enough to repay in a few years, the expense of the "plant." The students have for years PROTESTED against certain abuses in the janitor system. But our Parliament, with its advanced liberals and its ultra-conservatisms busy fighting one another, and all the rest absent; and our Overseers, "ninety-five in the shade," calm and tranquil,-how can we expect such as these to regard the wishes of the students, unless those wishes are expressed...