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...rate, he does not like to refuse a polite and seemingly slight request. If each senior gives away only two tickets in that way, some five hundred people who are "nobody's friends" come to Class Day and increase the too large crowd. Giving seniors a sufficient pretext for refusing such request for tickets was another reason for making the phrase so sweeping...
...glad to see that the owners of both Beck and Manter Hall have awakened to the need of having strong and efficient fire-escapes. If private owners are willing to make the pecuniary sacrifice necessary for the construction of iron fire-escapes we cannot quite conceive what pretext the college authorities have for leaving the majority of the dormitories in the yard without these safeguards. The most crying need is felt in Thayer, whose light and unsatisfactory construction has been the subject of much complaint for years...
...commemorate a particular event, and substantially it is a trophy, and has no other value except in point of material, and is free of duty,' A basket of cups, won by Mr. L. E. Myers during his recent visit to England, have been detained on the same pretext, but will now, no doubt, be similarly released...
Charles S. Childs, assistant superintendent of the Cambridge Cemetery, while driving from the city hall towards the cemetery with about $600 to pay off the men, was assaulted and shot by two men Saturday morning on Mt. Auburn street, who stopped him on the pretext of getting some rope to mend the harness of their team, which they claimed was broken. Mr. Child's condition was very critical Saturday night and he suffered great pain. His condition improved materially yesterday and strong hopes are entertained of his recovery. He passed a comfortable night last night. The assassins made off with...
...induce them to do so. On about the fifteenth of July the New York papers contained an account of a game between the Metropolitans and the Yales of the day previous. Thus it appears that Yale is willing to break agreement with a dreaded rival on the slightest pretext but afterwards accepts engagements with professional nines for no apparent reason...