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Dates: during 1890-1899
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DEAR SIRS.- Although fault is seldom found nowadays with the programme of a symphony concert on account of its brevity, the prevailing tendency of the programs being rather the other way, I think many of the music lovers present at the beautiful concert on Thursday evening in Sanders theatre will regret that the cello selection played by Mr. Hekking under the simple title "Melodie," by Mathuet, was not more fully described, when they hear that the real title of the piece is "Electra's Invocation." It is part of the melo-drama music written by Mathuet to accompany Leconte...
...Fires so seldom occur in the college buildings that they are scarcely thought of in the ordinary course of college life. But this is no reason why the necessary precautions against them should be overlooked. Many of the dormitories are built in very old style with very little provision for escape in case of fire. The stair-ways are narrow and all wood, so that they would make a perfect flue for the flames. It ought to be the duty of the college to furnish every room above the ground floor with a rope or other means of escape-There...
...expected. But our athletic condition has been steadily improving; at present the general tendency is healthy, and all that could be desired. The lack of success in recent years has not left us in the lethargic and apathetic condition which so many people seem to imagine. There has seldom been so much earnestness, energy and purpose in the athletic spirit of the university; we are going to work very seriously to make our athletic teams of the future more successful in their contests with the representatives of other colleges. It is useless to hope that the old class feeling...