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...authorities have been very prompt this year, as a general thing, in having the snow cleared off of the walks in the yard. However, last Sunday they were not touched, and at a late hour yesterday afternoon they were only partially cleaned. To use a favorite expression of one of our would-be contributors, "The authorities have been singularly remiss in this matter...
...explosion of a student's lamp occurred in a sophomore's room, at 10 Oxford street, on Tuesday night. For a few minutes it looked as if dangerous results might ensue, but the fire was soon extinguished by the prompt action of the owner...
...Yale will be considered as offered in a fair and gentlemanly spirit, until some strong reason appears for thinking otherwise. The feeling that the New Haven men are constantly laboring to take advantage of us only serves to increase the bitterness between the two colleges, and is likely to prompt hasty and injudicious action on our part. Let us, by a considerate policy, do all that we can to re-establish pleasant and amicable relations. For such relations, and none other, ought to exist between colleges like Yale and Harvard...
...very glad to see that the Directors of the Dining Association have taken such prompt action to end the recent nuisances in the gallery of the Hall. It does, to be sure, seem a little hard that so many men should be deprived of privileges, for the abuse of which they were not themselves responsible. It is always a pity that the many should have to suffer for the shortcomings of the few. But the present seems to be one of the cases where such an apparent injustice is unavoidable. It was absolutely necessary for the reputation of the Association...
Enter HERBERT FAGG.FAGG. Good-day, Miss Heath, you always are so prompt...