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...President's report will be ready for distribution next week...
...theatricals in aid of the H. U. B. C., which were to have been given in town, this week, by graduates, have been postponed; but the performance will probably take place immediately after the semiannuals, that is, about the first of March...
...petition sent to the Corporation, asking for a spring vacation, has not yet been heard from. It seems that the Faculty ask only for the whole of Fast Day week, - a week at present partly broken up, - which is certainly a very modest request. But there is some fear that if this week is allowed us, a week will be taken from the summer vacation, - that long recess which has lately been one of our greatest glories. A number of men who live beyond the Ohio are induced to come to Cambridge, in preference to any other Eastern college...
...publish this week a letter relating to the erection of fire-escapes on the College buildings. This subject has been considerably discussed since the fire in Hollis, but we must remind any one who is wearied of it that it took two years of continued articles and remonstrances before walks were laid in the Yard. It is to be hoped that as fire-escapes are more important than flagstones, the Corporation will take a shorter time to procure them. During the Hollis fire an officer of the College was heard to remark: "This is quite remarkable; we thought we were...
ABOUT fifteen men are working in the gymnasium for positions on the Nine, and in nothing is the insufficiency of the building more evident than in the lack of accommodations for base-ball players. Our men pass ball to some extent, take general exercise, and three times a week the pitcher practises pitching; but they can get no practice at all in batting during about five months. At Yale a certain part of the gymnasium is shut off from the rest of the building by a wire screen, and there the candidates for their Nine can take their places...