Word: set
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Yale Record of May 19 notices a fire which broke out in one of their college buildings on Sunday last. Some students had been smoking cigarettes just before church, and during their attendance at divine service the stumps, which appear to have been thrown into an easy-chair, set their room on fire. An impromptu fire-brigade succeeded in extinguishing the flames, but the room was rendered almost uninhabitable. It is a lesson worth remembering. While cuspidors and ash-pans still exist, it is to be hoped that easy-chairs will not again be called upon to take their place...
...have great numbers of books which are being ruined for want of proper care; if these books were given to the new club, the paid librarian would keep them in order, and additions could be made to supplement the College Library in the most useful way. Rooms might be set apart where whist and chess could be played, and others in which French and German lectures and debates might be held. In process of time enough money would be accumulated or subscribed to build a house, and then it might be practicable to have a kitchen where a steak...
...Fact.MR. WETHERBEE, '78, met with quite a serious accident in the Foot-Ball match on Tuesday afternoon. One of the opposite side ran against him, he was thrown down, and his collar-bone was fractured. The bone has been set, and we understand that he is now in quite a comfortable condition...
...SUBSCRIPTION has lately been set on foot and & 12,950 has been raised to finish Memorial Hall and to lessen the debt of the Dining Hall Association...
...many students. This is owing, doubtless, to the fact that some who have been connected with schools in which drill was compulsory have been bored by it to the utmost limit of endurance, and on the part of others, that its uses and advantages have never been properly set before them. In the event of the following suggestions being adopted I will endeavor, at the first meeting of students, to give my views upon the importance of military drill to both the above-named classes...