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Seniors will present subjects for their commencement parts to Prof. A. S. Hill at 4 P. M. today in Sever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/22/1883 | See Source »

...interesting to know that the inspector considers Holyoke the safest of all the college buildings, on account of its extra iron staircase. An exhibition of the workings of a patent rope fire-escape will be given at 4.15 P.M. today on Thayer, and the students are requested to be present if possible. If any are willing to practice placing and running up the extension fire ladders at that time, the superintendent of the yard will have the ladders brought out. It requires about a half a dozen men to manage these ladders, and if that number inform Mr. Knapp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRE ESCAPES. | 2/22/1883 | See Source »

...college men, as it strikes directly at the right of instructors to teach in the way that seems best to them. However disagreeable the teachings of a professor may seem to any set of men, it is absolutely necessary that the professor should be sustained in his right to present what appears to him the true principles of his subject. The advocates of protection have certainly weakened their falling cause by the adoption of such disgraceful weapons as the personal attack on Professor Sumner. There is no doubt that all college students will support the instructor against the malicious attacks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/22/1883 | See Source »

...second annual dinner of the class of '84, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was held at the Quincy House last evening, a large number of present and past members being present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 2/22/1883 | See Source »

...seventeenth annual dinner of the Harvard Club was given at Delmonico's in New York last night. Among those present were President Eliot of Harvard College, William M. Evarts, Joseph H. Choate, George A. Goddard of Boston, Hon. Charles W. Clifford of New Bedford, William Merrick of Springfield, Mass., Julian Hawthorne and Horatio Alger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 2/22/1883 | See Source »