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...least considered, but most likely of all the results of dormitory life is the danger from fire. We have just heard that a small fire, resulting in the destruction of a lambrequin, occurred in one of the college rooms and was with great difficulty prevented from doing more serious damage. It is truly remarkable that so few fires take place in the college precincts, but their absence ought not to cause carelessness on the part of the students. Every room is more or less exposed to danger from the chance dropping of a lighted match, and every student should keep...
When the spirit of improvement gets abroad and some of the more serious abuses are remedied, we would like to call the attention of the future council on improvements to the fact that the lecture room in Massacusetts is rendered uncomfortable by the absence of curtains. The sun pours in upon the burdened backs of the students with a fervor savoring rather of things below than above our heads. A slight expense would obviate the whole trouble and render comfortable a room which is at present a source of annoyance to many...
...than home influences. The home, it is true, lays the best foundation, but the college makes the best building, and the man whose life is spent entirely at home or whose college life is characterized by a daily dependence on home, will find when he enters the still more serious paths of life, that he has an exceedingly small and unsubstantial dwelling to live...
...captain); Appleton, '86; Rogers, '87; Caldwell, '87; Middlebrook, '87; Hartridge, '87; Farrington, '86; S. Farrington, '88; Stevenson, '88; and Woodruff, '89. Peters has positively refused to sit in the boat again, and Paton has not yet appeared at the boat house. Captain Cowles finds the optional system a serious drawback to his getting the men out together and thus far not very satisfactory results have been attained. - Post...
Special attention is called to the fact that, by the regulations, no overdue theme will be accepted, unless the writer satisfies the Dean that his failure to present it at the appointed time was due to serious illness or other unavoidable hindrance...