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...fire escapes, why not hand grenades? This is an age of improvements and this university is, or makes frequent claims to be, the patron of all things progressive. We have the latest novelties in elective systems, the latest in many other things and, we are loath to say it, the latest novelties in faculty interference with athletics. Why not the latest preventative for fires? Several years ago the authorities, tired of being reminded that the lives of the students under their charge were in imminent danger in case of fire, had a trial of fire escapes to appease the clamors...
...among the few miserable dwellings of the town. One by one the colleges were founded until, in Milton's time, the supremacy of Oxford University was threatened. As in Oxford the colleges all face upon one broad street, while their pleasant gardens border on the banks of their patron river. Of the Museums, the Fitzwilliam is the chief, noted for its fine collection of engravings, while many a fine piece of statuary can be found in its halls. The Senate House, dreaded by the incoming freshman, and the University Library, with its half million volumes, among them an original...
...trustees of Cornell have passed a resolution in favor of ordering a statue of Ezra Cornell, the patron of their university, from the American sculptor. Story, who is now working in Rome...
...letter of Edward Everett to Samuel Rogers. Mr. Rogers lived from 1763 to 1855, and first appeared as an author in the same year with Burns, namely, 1786. His poetry was of the unimpassioned, meditative character. Chambers says that "it was man of taste and letters, as a patron of artists and authors, and as the friend of almost every illustrious man that has graced our annals for the last half century or more, that Mr. Rogers chiefly engaged the public at tention." His colleges works have been published in various forms...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The notable lack of accommodation in the way of college rooms invites attention to some effort to remedy this lack, until some generous patron has given us a new dormitory. Everyone has noticed that our oldest hall, Massachusetts, has long been given to vacancy and examinations, no use being made of it all, practically, except on rare occasions. The use of this hall as a dormitory was discontinued with the building of new halls some ten years ago in which sufficient accommodations were provided for all the students then here. With the advent of Sever Hall...