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There appears to be considerable anxiety over the question of fire-escape apparatus for dormitories at Princeton and Yale. The last Princetonian had a satirical report of the burning of a college dormitory and attendant loss of life from insufficient means of escape for the inmates of the building. The Record also has lately been agitating this question; and now we learn from the Yale News that, "In each entry of Durfee one of the upmost story rooms is to be provided on the Elm-street side with a suitably attached knotted rope long enough to reach the ground...
There is every indication that we will have a good batting nine this year.-[Princetonian...
Lack of enterprise is not a failing of THE HARVARD HERALD. It appears for sale in the streets at Cambridge at 3 A. M. - [Princetonian.] News...
...Princeton College boys have never won special glory for weak-mindedness and pretty deportment. There is much more whole-heartedness in the way they make investments in beer than in their contributions to the Sunday school cause, and vile rumor has insinuated that poker parties are more to the Princetonian taste than are missionary meetings. All in vain has the genial old Scotch president bewailed this condition of affairs. His mild admonitions, his lectures, long drawn out and frequently repeated, his pleas and threats, all alike have fallen on ears disinclined to hearken. Occasional suspensions have fallen short...
...daily weather report seem to trouble the minds of the Princeton editors more than any other department of the HERALD. Close your eyes, editors of the Princetonian, when you come to the weather report, and, if you wish, glance over the rest of the paper...