Word: shuts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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According to the terms of the grant it was found that Jarvis could never be fenced in, so that the corporation has been puzzled to settle the question of a satisfactory athletic field, which could be shut off from the public and would satisfy the wants of the college. A plan has finally been hit upon. The gradual invasion of Holmes has been reducing its limits for some time; what with the Physical Laboratory, the Gymnasium, and the new Law school; and it is proposed to place the new Physical Laboratory still further out in the field...
...decisive and final. To reconsider the matter now, would establish a bad precedent and would render any vote of a future class worthless. There has been a great deal of misunderstanding about this matter generally, and particularly among the freshmen. They must not think that the intention was to shut them out from the tree, because they were freshmen, as a punishment for not defeating Yale. It is well known, that last year on class-day, the enclosure around the tree was entirely too closely crowded to admit of the ceremonies being carried on with perfect success or even convenience...
...elsewhere as we are led to believe, surely a few enthusiasts will take same action towards final results, and will not let themselves be eclipsed by the greater energy of lacrosse men, who are now winning a more general recognition. The refusals from Yale and Princeton have very effectually shut off our association's advances, and unless it receive some new and unexpected impulse, it will, we fear, prove one of those beings which speaks only once in its existence, then without effect...
...shut him up and rubbed him down...
...provisions for safety in case of fire. Only one or two of our dormitories possess fire-escapes, while the greater number of them are mere fire-traps, where any sudden violent conflagration late at night would be attended by a lamentable loss of life. The different entries are shut off from each other, and the stairways are mostly built in a spiral style that would furnish a tremendous draft for the flames and cut off escape. The danger is immediate and continual, and the action of the authorities at Princeton in providing fire-escapes is an example we could well...