Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...will set aside five per cent of his salary for investment, the Corporation will add five per cent and put this sum out at compound interest, thus forming a kind of Savings Bank. Whenever an officer or instructor ceases to be such, he must, unless he has served the number of years requisite for retirement, withdraw his individual fund at the same time. And at the death of a fund-holder his accumulated share is to be paid to his family or other persons designated in his will. The Corporation, therefore, so far from depriving professors of a portion...
...destroyed by being thrown recklessly out of the windows, while a great deal was injured by water. The lesson that this fire should teach the Corporation is very evident. Although they are willing to run the risk of financial loss from fire, they are bound to consider the number of lives that they are responsible for; they are bound to do all in their power to prevent such a calamity as the burning up of twenty or thirty students, which is not only possible, but very probable, under the existing system...
...with the College as a stalking-horse to conceal the true character of this new enterprise, which is simply a financial speculation got up by Mr. Moses King for his own sole benefit. The array of articles from members of the Faculty which he has obtained for his first number shows that he has been very successful, for the present at least, in using them as a cat's paw to pull his chestnuts out of the fire; but we hope and believe that his contributors will be undeceived before long. One word more, to avoid misapprehension. We suppose that...
SINCE the number of college papers is increasing so rapidly, it may not be amiss to consider the objects of the new ones and to inquire whether they are really needed...
...attic. Ladders were immediately raised, and hose was run up, but with so little order that it was some time before a stream was brought to bear on the flames. The firemen paid little attention to the furniture, throwing it from the windows, regardless of consequences. Luckily a number of students joined in the work, and succeeded, by lowering the heavy articles with ropes and carpets, in saving most of them from damage by water. In a short time the whole south entry was flooded, the water, several inches deep, covering the floors of the upper rooms, and leaking down...