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DEAR SIR, - The battered mediaeval walls of this historic city would prompt me to write of bygone internecine struggles, rather than of the peaceful athletic contests of modern times, were my interest in those contests one jot less keen. Having lived for many years at a distance from the scenes of action, should any misstatement offend my readers, I apologize beforehand, attributing it to my precarious sources of information. However, I have to deal with principles rather than facts...
...Prompt delivery of coal will be made only when payment has been made at the time of ordering...
This fire was both the first and last which has done any severe injury to the College buildings. An account of it, written by Dorothy Dudley, may be found in the Library. An incipient conflagration occurring in Thayer several months ago was nipped in the bud by the prompt action of a student; and it was directly after this that the Faculty took the well-intended but seemingly fruitless measure of placing a fire-extinguisher in every proctor's room. So long as there are rooms which cannot be entered without the aid of a battering-ram and a policeman...
...prompt payment of subscriptions is indispensable to the success of the next meeting, as the necessary expenses are considerable; for although the intrinsic value of the prizes may be slight (and more 's the pity), yet they, in conjunction with the erection of temporary accommodation for visitors, etc., form important items of expenditure. Supported as this institution is by the approval of the President and Faculty, useful as it is in itself, and ably managed as it is by its projectors, nothing but the vigorous support of its friends is wanting to make it second to none of the valued...
...ready adoption of a suggestion in the last Magenta relating to the formation of a Chess Club, and the prompt calling of a meeting to start such a society, give us reason to believe that there exists at Harvard a number of men skilled in chess, and willing to give part of their time to the study of it. The interest shown at the meeting called yesterday afternoon to consider the question is also encouraging. A committee, consisting of Mr. Stimson, '76, Mr. Chase, '76, and Mr. Lowell, '76, was appointed to draw up a Constitution, to be reported early...