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...student in case of fire, but under the rapid strides of improvement in our government we can confidently look forward to the time when this will form a regular part of the duties of some official. Until that time we beg our "anxious friend" to calm himself and to trust to the natural wakefulness of students as a safety against fire...
...locked the door behind him. His return was sometimes delayed; once he kept her locked up over an hour. One goody took care of his room many years, receiving a handsome weekly fee for her extra trouble. The janitor of the building was the only person whom he would trust alone in his room. Some years since, a student who roomed over him come home in that stage of vinous fermentation known as "gloriously tight." The elated, if misguided young man stumbled up the steep and crooked stairs of Holworthy and at length tumbled in an inglorious heap before Professor...
...details of the late Mr. Ellis' will are as follows: The estate is left in trust for the benefit of his sister, and upon her decease the sum of $50,000 is to be paid to the president and fellows of Harvard college, the net income of which, after deducting 5 per cent there of for the purpose of increasing the fund, is to be applied to the payment of the tuition and other expenses of certain descendants of David Ellis and others who may be members of the college. The residue of the trust property, if any, is also...
...chiefly among the students of the college proper, one-fifth of whom now come from that part of the country. The number of graduates of the university who settle in the Middle and Western States has been rapidly increasing of late, many of them soon filling places of trust and influence. They exert themselves to improve the preparatory schools in their vicinity, or to found new ones; and by example and precept they suggest to young men that it is expedient to get thorough training for professional or active life. Since about 300 young men are now graduated yearly...
...copies of a book for the use of a large section is a most disagreeable feature in several courses, but any unfairness or carelessness merely adds to this, without mitigating it in the slightest. So long, then, as we are compelled to put up with it, we trust that every man will do his share towards making the burdens as light as possible...