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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- The great danger of fire in any of our college dormitories is in the use of open grates. If these grates can be protected so that the coals can not fall upon the carpets, there is almost no danger. At present the only fenders are pieces of iron about two inches high; and these are almost worthless. By putting in proper fenders the college would protect its property much more effectually than by an unlimited amount of fire apparatus stored away in the basements of the buildings. Such fenders could be made very cheaply of wire gauze...
...government of the students. This system is modeled to a great extent after the one now in use at Harvard, but the details have not yet been fully worked out. The principal change is in regard to the manner of making out the reports of the students. At present, each student is given his rank and position in the class according to a marking system. After this term. however, the classes will be divided into groups according to rank...
Owing to a reception given to the freshman class, and the senior class meeting, only about sixty men were present at the Harvard Union debate last evening. After the report of the secretary, the following question was chosen for the next meeting...
Under the first head, he described the working of the present system, laying especial stress on the power vested in State legislatures to determine the manner of election of presidential electors in their several states. Under the second head he claimed that under the present system the president might be and has been elected by the minority of voters. Another point made under this heading was that according to the present system many voters were virtually disfranchised in states returning a large majority in either direction. Under the third head, the argument that the present system would destroy state individuality...
Senator Davis was followed by other present, after which it was decided to hold the next meeting a year hence at Worcester. The meeting then adjourned...