Word: fastenings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Fasten the meat scraps and suet securely to the trees and see how eagerly the chickadees and wood-peckers go to it. Tread the snow down hard and scatter the hayseed and crumbs there, or put the food on a board or box and watch the juncoes and tree sparrows fill up. Put out chaff and grain for the quail and meadowlarks in the pasture. They work for us all summer long, eating insects...
...remains that Sever Hall would be very dangerous in case of a fire. There are no outside fire escapes, and the stairs are wooden and would burn quickly. On every floor there are wire ladders, but in the confusion incident to a serious conflagration these would be difficult to fasten and uncoil. Furthermore, the congestion that would result about windows would make exit from them extremely difficult...
...faulty as is the senator's research of history his ignorance of present day conditions is even worse. He denounces our colleges is even worse. He denounces our colleges as 'reactionary' and the 'greatest dead-weight the capitalist can fasten upon the necks of the American people. 'Politics,' he says, the colleges look upon as a low pursuit, and college opinion is regarded by our legislators as a joke. He thinks it a great pity that the political arm of our State and National Governments should not receive support from our colleges. Never in the history of the country have...