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...Science Hall, was totally destroyed by fire. The building was a handsome stone structure and contained many valuable geological and scientific collections, besides laboratories and other rooms. The loss will probably be over $200,000, and there is but $40,000 of insurance. Several students risked their lives to save the various collections, and it is said that some of them were compelled to jump from the top windows to escape a fiery death...
...premium on walking on the grass in wet weather. For years the college press has clamored for the use of the 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...
...always thought the game as played in "the Field" at Eton was the purest form of football known, the most essentially foot ball of any. On no excuse whatever may the hands be employed, except to touch the ball, when it passes behind the goal lines, to save or get a "rouge." Even the rules of the Association game, which may be described as a sort of compromise between all rules, are more lenient ; for by them the goal-keeper may in defence of his post make use of his hands in any way save in carrying the ball...
...learn there alike science and patriotism. He was greeted with a student song, and a triple shout of "Hoch !" Then several persons prominent in building the pile were presented to him as he walked about, and all was over. His dress was the ordinary Austrian uniform, with no ornaments save the medals and chains of certain orders...
...committee will publish a notice for the members of the senior class in regard to the sittings and other arrangements which will be made by them, and we confidently hope the class will realize the necessity of attending to their some what disagreeable duty and there by save us the pleasure of publishing at frequent intervals the usual frantic appeals of the photographic committee...