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...reporters is as true as it is interesting. R. L. West '14 has given us a good deal of inside information on the training of debating teams to what he calls the "Harvard Habit of Winning Debates." But he has uncovered what we might name the Institute's family skeleton, since, from the behaviour of its present members, we judge that they are ashamed of the fact that such questions as the relative merits of Napoleon and Cromwell were ever argued between its walls. The article on Princeton Customs, by Mr. Hunter of the Nassau Literary Magazine, is interesting enough...
...exterior of the building, the brick and stone work has reached third-floor height, while some parts of the skeleton construction of the interior are even higher. All of the twenty-eight Corinthian columns and capitals have been set, four in each of the four pavilions and twelve across the front of the building. The capitals are being carved in place with the use of plaster models and it is hoped to expedite this work, which is now being done by hand, by the installation of an air compressor, which is expected shortly. The stone-work on the gable...
...following valuable specimens have been purchased by the Museum from R. Ward; adult male and female California elephant seals; adult male, with mounted skeleton, of pigmy hippopotamus from Mauwa River, Liberia; wild male Bengal tiger from Kuch Behar, northeastern India...
Presumably in connection with the same affair, a skeleton which had recently been stolen from Dr. Darling's laboratory in Lawrence Hall was suspended on a rope over Massachusetts avenue in front of Holyoke House early Saturday morning. It was discovered by the police and taken down at 4 o'clock...
Work on the interior of the building is well under way. Skeleton floors and partitions have been built and the main stairway is at present being erected. The ceilings are being furred in preparation for the plastering which will be begun about the middle of April...