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...Graduates Magazine" points out the sad lack of private libraries among students, and the resulting traffic in second hand textbooks which flourishes on the Square. The undergraduate no longer dines in quiet with a few "kindred spirits", nor sits comfortably before a bed of coals glowing in his small grate. Instead he rushes from the clattering dishes of some restaurant or lunch room to the bustle of competition or athletic field, and later after a pleasant evening elsewhere he returns to his room too tired to do anything but crawl into...
...profession must face, Mr. Perry recalls how one writer was convinced that a certain institution was using methods which were prejudicial to his best interests in order to win a football game from its rival. He wrote fearlessly and checked the practise--but as a result is "persona non grate to the football faculty of that institution and is set down as a man merely intent upon venting personal grievances...
...unfortunately when he was cremating some scattered portions of Dr. Parkman the gentleman's false teeth fell through the grate of the furnace into the ash bed beneath. The discovery of these false teeth and its identification by the doctor's dentist were enough to send Professor Webster to the gallows...
Harvard College has also had innumerable escapes from fire losses, because of the prompt extinguishment of fires started. The commonest cause of fires in the dormitories was the falling of live coals out of the grate piled too high to keep the fire during some long absence of the occupant of the room. Many fires have been started in the College buildings by students' thoughtless practice of throwing matches and the ends of cigars or cigarettes into waste-paper baskets; but these sudden flames are as a rule put out quickly, because the chances are that the fire will start...
...summer. In Thayer, Perkins, and Conant Halls, common living and smoking rooms have been established. In Thayer, room 3 has been chosen for the living room and the partition between the study and bedroom has been removed. Electric lights and steam heat have been added and the small grate fire place has been enlarged so that wood instead of coal may be used for fuel. A week will in all probability be necessary for completion. In Conant, rooms 1 and 2 on either side of the hall have been thrown together. The study of room 3, which has been...