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...following officers and speakers were elected: Class-Day committee, C. H. Young (chairman), E. Ewell, H. A. Sill, H. A. Vedder, J. R. Fairchild, G. F. Warren and W. R. Powell; historian, J. J. Mapes; poet, L. C. Reamer; prophet, C. S. Baldwin; presentation orator, W. C. Humphreys; class-day orator, P. F. Hall. The proceedings were characterized by unanimity and the utmost good feeling...
...late Professor Edward R. Sill was a sophomore at Yale when John Brown was killed, and was one of the four [students who on that occasion broke into the chapel and draped it with mourning emblems...
...Madame Mohl's Salon; and an article on "Vernon Lee," by Harriet W. Preston. Dr. Holmes's charming papers are continued. Bradford Torrey contributes a pleasant paper on "Winter Birds about Boston." "A Sheaf of Sonnets," by Helen Gray Cone, and verses by Edith Thomas, and E. R. Sill, complete the poetry, while a criticism of "Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife," reviews of Montcalm and Wofe, and the other usual matter complete the number...
...stairs from a late recitation rushed up to a co-ed and with a swoop of his right arm encircled her neck, saying, "Hello Bill, old boy. How de do." When the time for red fire and slow music came he might have been seen hanging from the window sill of the 4th story hall blushing like a house afire.-[Michigan Chronicle...
...much the same contrivance is to be adopted in each entry, the rope, however, being attached at the highest of the hallway. In the old chapel an iron ladder is to be permanently attached in the rear, reaching from the window of the room in the gable to the sill of the blind window about eight feet above the ground. These fire-escapes are to be placed in position soon." Meanwhile Harvard is left to the saving grace of the Cambridge fire department (vide Lampoon) and of hypothetical fire ladders stowed away in unknown biding-places...