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Automatic fire sprinklers are being installed in the basement of Harvard Hall as a result of considerable agitation o the part of the University authorities as well as the student body. For some time it has been felt that Harvard Hall was a dangerous fire trap having narrow staircases and no fire escapes. With the sprinklers installed the University authorities say that the danger from fire will be reduced to a minimum because there are no furnace fires in the building, all heat coming from the Boston Elevated Railway Company power house...
...problem comes home to the University in a way which is cause for reasonable anxiety rather than levity. Harvard Hall stands as a constant menace--a fire-trap endangering daily the lives of scores of men. The proper University authorities can respond to the idea of Fire Prevention Week in no better way than by facing the situation frankly and taking the necessary measures to safeguard the lives of those who are constantly using the building...
...these days of rights of women," concluded Sir Robert Home, " we are told that the women no longer run after the men. The mouse-trap never runs after the mouse...
...that the electors are not being appealed to, but are being bullied. The difficulties of getting the ignorant electors to register their votes are said to be almost insuperable. They are even too frightened to register themselves on the electoral rolls, believing that such a process is a trap set to catch them as conscripts for the army. It is also stated that they believe that their independence is designed "to enrich the autocracy and the bureaucracy at the expense of the toiling masses...
...temptation to choose an unfamiliar word for its mere sound is a trap that has caught others besides the Government and Mrs. Malaprop. The prodigious oaths of small boys can scarcely be called profanity: they are nothing more than an innocent Pistolese, "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Politicians, publicity agents, and country ministers have vocabularies of similar range and equal disregard for dictionary conventions. One is reminded of the early CRIMSON book-review which said that Professor Norton's notes on the Lowell letters were of course "of infinitesimal value...