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...grievance this time, and turn to the new complaint which has been made. The chapel, it is said, is too dark to allow the reading of psalms without injury to the eyes. We therefore, respectfully suggest that on cloudy mornings the gloomy chapel be illuminated by a stray candle here and there. The reader may now expect some words about electric light in the library. But, for today we have finished our suggestions to the powers above us, whether faculty or janitor...
Harper's Weekly thinks that when college students cease putting wagons astride the ridge of gymnasiums, enticing stray horses into college belfries and climbing lightning rods after flags, it will be time enough to talk about putting up fire escapes for them...
...keys his nervous fingers stray...
...manner of conduct here; for the Record, writing relative to the recent action of '82 in regard to '85 admittance to the tree, says: "Yet, supposing it to hold in full force, how is it to be carried out? Will the university appoint a vigilance committee to apprehend any stray freshmen who may be found craning their necks among the crowd about the forbidden tree? or will this be the duty of the president ex officio? or will the chivalrous spirit of Harvard smother the sense of injustice in them, and keep the freshmen at a respectful distance." Fortunately there...
Lampy's cartoon on lacrosse might well be supplemented by one showing the tribulations of tennis players in the vicinity of the cricket crease. In several cases men have been struck by stray balls, while a constant fear is felt every time that a sharp "clip" is heard. In the midst of this danger and with vociferous calls of "thank you" from the cricketeers, the tennis man's life in that vicinity is not always happy...