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...grate piled too high to keep the fire during some long absence of the occupant of the room. Many fires have been started in the College buildings by students' thoughtless practice of throwing matches and the ends of cigars or cigarettes into waste-paper baskets; but these sudden flames are as a rule put out quickly, because the chances are that the fire will start while the careless student is still in his room...
...experience of recent years shows that a small loan fund would be of great advantage to many worthy students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In cases of sudden or temporary hardship, loans in small amounts and for short periods are frequently needed to enable students to get the best advantage of the year of study upon which they have embarked. Men of capacity and ambition are from time to time obliged to break off their studies in the course of the year, or to spend many hours of valuable time in supporting themselves by work which...
...championship by reason of the loss of playing power and general demoralization resulting. Fortunately the other defeats were free from any blights; the baseball one was to be expected, for a team playing under the strain of upholding a record of successive victories is always liable to a sudden slump; track was half expected, and the performance of many of the men was worthy of congratulation...
...Point of View" is a one-act play of ideas, based on the ever new subject of the dual standard. It is as good as many undergraduate plays; indeed, it is better than most. If the climaxes were at times less sudden and the dialogue a little more flexible, the work would gain...
That last nerve-racking period of Saturday evening's game was announced as "sudden death." "Lingering death" would have fitted it better; for two teams which, after an unusually exhausting game ten minutes longer than the regular, fight through twenty-seven minutes under the strain of knowing that a single defensive slip-up will be irretrievable, are not dying suddenly. It means much for both sevens to have come through such a contest as Saturday's; it means very much for the University seven to have come through it victorious...