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Professor Wilson, who has had wide experience in international negotiations, served as a legal adviser at the Conference, while Professor Blakeslee was a technical adviser on Pacific and Far Eastern questions...
...violently during the between-classes rush. It is made of the best of fuels--thoroughly dried and seasoned wood. Its pathetic but nevertheless cleverly concealed fire-escapes are hopeless. Most people would rather risk the stairways. One thing however, may be said for the construction. The main staircase is wide. And part of the descent, although not the important part, has an additional stairway. Apparently the architects forgot that in case of a fire, the "last lap", between the first and second floors, would be the place where extra accommodations would be needed...
...building which originally stood on the site was burned. The one of today assumed its present aspect in 1870. The architects in this case must have left stairways entirely out of their consideration but compromised with the authorities on a single flight just three and a half feet wide...
...floor accommodate 330 students. At certain hours in the day there are nearly this number present. It is an amusing problem in permutations and combinations to figure how many different ways 250 or more men can reach the ground in two minutes using one stairway less than four feet wide and a score of windows. Those that used the windows would have to jump. For even the artistically conceived Sever fire-escape is lacking...
Professor Wilson, who is announced as one of the speakers, served as legal adviser at the Washington Conference. He is widely known as an authority on international law, and holds a professorship at the U. S. Naval College as well as at the University. He has had wide experience in international negotiations, holding the position of American delegate to the International Naval Conference in 1908-09. He was counselor to the American Legation at the Hague in 1914, and later served as legal adviser to the American mission for return of the Dutch ships...