Word: egress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fore a well-worn subject, but one which cannot be dropped until remedied. We have repeatedly called the attention of the faculty to the large loss of life which must necessarily ensue in case of a fire in any of the dormitories. There is no possible means of egress except by the stairs, and if escape in that direction should be cut off, one would be compelled to sit down and calculate how many minutes were to elapse before the flames reached the upper story. Perhaps after one dormitory is a smoking mass of ruins, the faculty, like...
...room exercises during the first term and during each half of the second term . . . The term class room exercises as here used includes recitations, lectures delivered on those courses which are subject to examination, and rhetorical appointments. Under this rule . . . a tardiness of more than five minutes or an egress will be counted as an absence...