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AFTER the next number the publication of the North American Review will be transferred from the University Press to D. Appleton & Co., New York...
...Room is known only from the fact of their having seen papers hanging on the walls of Lower Massachusetts during an examination. By the payment of a trifling fee, any one obtains the right to the use of the prominent Boston and New York dailies and of the large number of other newspapers and magazines of which we have given a list. We hope that enough persons will respond to the appeal of the directors to enable them to use the room in the evening and get the additional papers of which they stand in need...
...elsewhere announced that the scratch races will take place to-morrow. We wish earnestly to advise all who take the slightest interest in boating to enter their names for these races, in which the number of contestants, rather than their quality, is what is desired. We would most strongly urge those who make their first appearance here this year to improve this opportunity to pull in races which, although the stakes are small, and little honor is won or lost, nevertheless afford the captain of the University Crew and the captains of the club crews one of the best opportunities...
...iron balconies which can easily be connected on the front. Why Holyoke, being so well provided, should now have a new iron staircase, while the other College buildings have no protection, is an insoluble conundrum. Holyoke is a particularly dangerous building in case of fire, because of the number of "wells" which it contains. But Weld and Matthews both have elevator "wells," up which fire would spring like lightning; moreover, the "wells" in the latter buildings are sheathed in wood, while those in Holyoke are plastered. Grant, however, that the new iron staircase is desirable, which we do not attempt...
...writer knows to the contrary), consisting of a board which fits into the window-frame, and is furnished with a large pipe covered with a wire netting through which the draught of air is regulated by a damper. If a supply of these were put into University, the number of students kept in their rooms by colds would be very much diminished, and the powers that be would be relieved of the trouble of reading numerous physicians' certificates...