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...themselves should be heard. But, if the reports be true, it is high time that college students everywhere should take the matter of hazing into their own hands, and decree a decisive and final ending to what is becoming a monstrous abase and disgrace to intelligent men. This last outbreak would seem to cap the climax of the monument of foolishness that has been heaped up so industriously this year at various colleges. Community of interest and patriotic feelings no longer demand that these actions should be palliated and excused by their fellows; rather that decisive action should be taken...
...style that would furnish a tremendous draft for the flames and cut off escape. The danger is immediate and continual, and the action of the authorities at Princeton in providing fire-escapes is an example we could well wish to see imitated here. At Princeton there was once an outbreak of malarial fever among the students that was distressingly fatal, and it was followed by an entire reorganization of the drainage both at that college and at Harvard. Perhaps, after some disastrous conflagration, involving the sacrifice of valuable lives, our college authorities may be induced to provide us fire-escapes...
Fears are entertained of an outbreak of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians, two of the fiercest tribes in the West...
There is a threatened Indian outbreak on the Crow reservation...
...such a manner that the very sad result ensued. I see by reading his account of the matter that, with the wonderful precision and clearness which insanity sometimes attains, he has given a very clear account of all that happened up to the time of that terrible outbreak on Red Hill. There he burst forth a raving madman. What might have happened had not two other pedestrians fortunately approached, I do not pretend to say. Yet, previous to that occurrence, till within two or three days, at least, no one had appeared to suspect him of not being...