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...their number who was charged with stealing a book from a hospital. At the Guildhall police court a crowd of students assembled, and by yells and other expressions of interest attracted an extra force of policemen. When the court was opened the proceedings were threatened with a sudden termination, but the judge abmonished the young men, and quiet was restored...
...lungs are able to use the oxygen taken into them, until the highest obtainable speed is reached, when it should decrease slowly to a walking pace once more. By observing these precautions, one is sure of not suffering from dizziness or overstraining, or of being chilled by a sudden cessation of quick movements, especially on a cold or windy day. Running is not a pastime in which heavy men ought to engage, as a rule, as they are liable to injure themselves in anything like a spurt, unless they have been carefully trained, and all the superfluous adipose matter burned...
...successful. The greatest danger to which the Harvard society is exposed is internal dissension. Students are too apt to follow blindly the lead of a few men. It was this tendency which came so near ruining Memorial Hall last spring, and it was the same influence that suddenly put the hall on a firm footing again. The fiscal year of the society ends on the third Wednesday of February, and on that day the annual dues of members are payable. A sudden prejudice against the society formed at that time might cause the membership to decline so seriously...
...preliminary arrangements preparatory to a visit to the East having been made, Mrs. Butterfield and Benjamin started for Chicago, where they were to take a sleeping-car for Boston. Mr. Butterfield remained at home to meet a sudden demand for his "In Excelsis Bug Exterminator," caused by the arrival of a band of French Canadians, who proposed settling on the farm-lands in the immediate vicinity of Saug Centre...
...could say the same for Harvard, but the fact is that we are living in singular disregard of any provisions for safety in case of fire. Only one or two of our dormitories possess fire-escapes, while the greater number of them are mere fire-traps, where any sudden violent conflagration late at night would be attended by a lamentable loss of life. The different entries are shut off from each other, and the stairways are mostly built in a spiral style that would furnish a tremendous draft for the flames and cut off escape. The danger is immediate...