Word: campuses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...slight fire in the cabinet building at Yale, on Sunday, December 23, was the only one of importance which has disturbed their campus for many years. The damage was small and will be repaired before the new term begins...
...nine fatal cases of typhoid fever in New Haven during the month of November, and that this implies from 40 to 60 cases of sickness. Dr. Lindsley is among those who believe the typhoid fever at Yale may be due to the proximity of the two pumps on the campus to the drain pipes. He thinks the use of the pumps should be discontinued. It is worthy of note that of twelve men rooming on the entry of Durfee, in front of which is one of the pumps, four have had symptoms of the fever...
...Salvation Army in New Haven, states, "The Army now numbers some 70 members here, and their voices at the open-air meetings on the steps of the old State House have been so great as to discourage the Yale students from continuing the college glee songs from the campus fence in front of the college...
...cover. This is a fit time to call the attention of the students again to the necessity of insuring the furniture of their rooms. The whole brick row might be in a blaze, before the fire department could arrive, owing to their being no alarm box on the campus, but never mind that. Our lives may be in the greatest peril from the lack of proper fire escapes, but never mind that; at least let every man secure an insurance on his own room, and when our charred remains are dragged from beneath the ruins of old South or North...
...Cornell, against the combined forces of the old American game, prejudice and general student apathy. This year it has succeeded in driving its opponent from the field and overcoming the ancient prejudice against itself, but the third obstacle still prevents Rugby from obtaining a permanent footing upon our campus. Through the efforts of a few members of the association the foot ball grounds were marked out and a team chosen some four weeks ago, but what has been accomplished since? For a few days quite a crowd assembled at the hours bulletined for games, but never were all the picked...