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...Summer repairs...
...Herbert Putnam, '83, who has been abroad since last summer, has returned to college...
...such fire-escapes as will be best under every consideration. The plan of permanent ladders, such as are now on Matthews and Holyoke, was objectionable in several ways. On the front of the buildings situated like Hollis, Stoughton and others, the ladders would be ungainly-looking objects. Moreover, in summer they would give an easy access for thieves or other evil-disposed persons to the students' rooms, and so many ladders could not be thoroughly watched. Another plan proposed was that of short balconies extending on the outside of the building around the fire wall. These would enable students...
...which in former years the crew considered themselves competent to decide. We are of the opinion that your graduate committee having full power, the joint committee is competent to bring the whole matter to a satisfactory conclusion under any contingency. We are anxious to meet your crew the coming summer, but decline to accept your challenge until all the preliminaries for the race shall have been decided by our joint committee. Your reply will necessarily terminate this correspondence. If you agree to our views, the graduate committees with full powers can take charge of the whole matter. Other-wise...
...best physiques come from the city, but, in general, from the large towns, where the advantages of pure air, out-door freedom and the absence of severe manual labor are combined. In this connection he remarked that, for a college student of the present day to spend his summer vacation working on a farm during haying and harvesting, and all the time subjecting a body unaccustomed to this sort of work to a continued strain, was in the highest degree injurious, as although our forefathers may have done it with impunity, the physical powers of the student of the present...