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...university. The causes for this condition are perhaps due, in some degree at least, to inherent differences in the two classes of students. On the other hand, that there is in American universities an ever increasing interest in contemporary affairs the large number of sporadic political clubs supply bundant proof. The failure of these undertakings to play a larger part than they do in the life of the University is in large measure a result of their very numbers, of the loss of energy through its diffusion into too large a number of channels, in the failure to concentrate...
Work has been continued on the rebuilding of the Gray Herbarium in fire-proof materials. Much of the central part of the building has already been remodeled, and the contract for the remaining work has recently been let. In the near future the whole structure will be fire-proof according to the most modern standards...
...through the ventilating fine and heated it to a dangerous degree. The city fire department quickly extinguished the flames before the fire had burnt through the floor of the dining room; but the escape of the building from destruction was so narrow, that the Corporation later caused a fire-proof floor to be substituted in the Hall for the preceding hollow structure of wood...
These various losses and alarms induced the Corporation, after 1872, to take certain precautions against the spread of fire in their old buildings; and after 1880 to use, or ask for,--"slow-burning" or "fire-proof" construction in their new buildings...
...building, the large central portion, remains in its original form. Through generous gifts from several patrons, funds are now available for the reconstruction of this section. The work on the Herbarium has consisted of remodeling and considerably enlarging the previous structure along the lines of modern fire-proof construction. Dr. Asa Gray bequeathed his valuable collection of botanical specimens on the condition that it be kept in a building free from danger of fire...