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There will be fifty suites. Those on one stair-case will be separated from those on another by a thick brick wall to serve as a fire protection and to deaden noise. Each suite will contain a study, bathroom, and, as a rule, two bed-rooms, but there will be a few single rooms. Special attention has been given to ventilation and lighting. Every suite will have a street and court frontage, and in every study there will be a large window eight feet wide with a stationary window-seat...
...Banjo Club played very well, although the use of banjourines entirely in place of banjos had a tendency to deaden the sound somewhat. They played the "Gladiator March" and the "Rover Galop" especially well, receiving an encore after each. The programme was about the same as that of most of the freshman clubs, the old songs, "Alikazander," "Three Glasses," "Courtship," "Mary, Mary," and "Piper Heidsick" forming the body of it. "We Meet Again Tonight" and "The Pope" were rather new songs and were sung very well. After the concert there was dancing until eleven o'clock...
...does compulsion have upon the several classes of persons to whom it is applied? Does it not work more harm than good? So far as members of the church are concerned the effect of compulsion may be disregarded, although it is said that even among these it tends to deaden rather than to stimulate and enliven an interest in religion. But there is good ground for a belief that compulsion tends to repel students who are not Christians and to harden their hearts...
...Jefferson" physical laboratory on Holmes field is to be surrounded with a trench filled with stones to deaden street jars and secure accuracy in experiments. Over the building will rise a double-walled tower intended for experiments with long pendulums and for investigations of the atmosphere...