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...profitable field for one's life work, but is to be classed with music and painting. Its office is to furnish occupation for the spare hours of life. The development of taste in the appreciation of literary excellence is the pleasantest, the most accessible, the most improving and the safest of all pastimes...
...State inspector of fire has expressed himself perfectly satisfied with this arrangement, and says that nothing more is necessary. It may be interesting to know that the inspector considers Holyoke the safest of all the college buildings, on account of its extra iron staircase. An exhibition of the workings of a patent rope fire-escape will be given at 4.15 P.M. today on Thayer, and the students are requested to be present if possible. If any are willing to practice placing and running up the extension fire ladders at that time, the superintendent of the yard will have the ladders...
...that is that the rules adopted at the last inter-collegiate convention to prevent the old so-called "block game" were totally unavailing when put to the test. The game employed by Princeton was entirely justifiable by the rules, and under the circumstances was, without doubt, the very safest and most reasonable method she could employ. Had Harvard been in her place she would have undoubtedly used the same means to hold her advantage. But by this method should an inferior eleven chance by accident to score any point on more powerful adversaries, they might be able to hold their...
...buildings. Harvard College never had a dollar of insurance upon any of its edifices till within a few years. Amherst had done as other institutions had done which were constantly and painfully cramped for means - use all possible precaution and not insure. Walker Hall was believed to be the safest of the college buildings, and the management shows that it could not have been by carelessness that the fire was caused. No fire had been in the furnace for several days, it being vacation. No rags were in the building, as has been said, by which the fire could have...
...cradle-cut our fingers and capers while children-cut a figure in our teens-and, at last, Atropos, with her black cap and Damascus scissors, cuts short the thread of our existence. Take almost any case that you choose, and you find cutting almost without exception the safest course." And so the changes are rung on "cuts" for a full page more...