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...Geological Museum, and Dr. T. A. Jaggar, who was in Martinique and St. Vincent after the recent eruption, read a paper on "The Preservation of Human Life in Volcanic Lands." He divided his subject into two considerations--how to preserve life when danger is imminent, and how to warn people of probable explosions. In most volcanic outbursts, persons are killed by a steam blast, falling hot material, a sea wave, or a wind high enough to overset masonry. Some theory of protection against these forces may be found by inquiring into the cases of persons who have been saved from...
...management wishes to warn everyone against buying tickets for the Yale game from speculators. From several sources it seems that a number of tickets are offered for sale, for which there are no seats. Such tickets will not admit a person to the field, and there will be no opportunity to exchange them...
...wish to warn every man in the University who intends to try for any athletic team that he must keep up in his studies. The work of developing a team has sometimes been lost and the team's prospects spoiled by the failure of a few men to keep off probation. The worst example of this was afforded by last year's Freshman baseball team. Out of the nine men who were considered the best for their positions in the class six were put on probation before the games with Yale. The responsibility for the loss of the Yale games...
...wish to warn students against disposing of their Yale-game seats in improper ways. Any ticket found in the hands of a speculator can be readily traced to the student upon whose application it was taken out; and I shall be compelled to publish the name of every student so disposing of his ticket. ELIOT SPALDING, Graduate Manager...
This advance into the great woods brought about the conflict with the French, who claimed the region by right of La Salle's discoveries. They advanced down the Alleghany region, building forts as they came, till in 1753 the governor of Virginia sent George Washington to warn them against further aggression. In the war which followed the individual history of Virginia becomes merged with that of the other colonies with whom she became leagued in the struggle...