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Dates: during 1870-1879
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HOLLIS HALL, which so narrowly escaped destruction on Wednesday last, was built from an appropriation of Pound 3,000 made by the General Court in 1761; and received its name from the Hollis family of London, whose benefactions to the College are so well known. Dedicated in the presence of both branches of the Provincial Assembly, it was named by Governor Bernard; after which, Taylor, a "Junior Sophister, pronounced, with suitable and proper action, a gratulatory oration in English." Its existence has not been uneventful. Struck by lightning in 1768, its honest old frame survived the thunderbolt...
...first outbreak of flame is a strong protection against serious injury. That this fire, breaking out as it did in the middle of the day, was so destructive, can only be attributed to its origin in a room unused by day, and to the misfortune attending the first well-meant efforts of the fire department...
...College buildings. An account of it, written by Dorothy Dudley, may be found in the Library. An incipient conflagration occurring in Thayer several months ago was nipped in the bud by the prompt action of a student; and it was directly after this that the Faculty took the well-intended but seemingly fruitless measure of placing a fire-extinguisher in every proctor's room. So long as there are rooms which cannot be entered without the aid of a battering-ram and a policeman, so long will there necessarily be danger from fire. In conclusion, we note the curious coincidence...
...well known that the Forest and Stream has offered a valuable piece of plate as a prize for an intercollegiate rifle-match. From the columns of that journal we learn that many colleges have taken hold of the subject energetically, and their rifle-clubs are looking around among their graduates for suitable men to coach them. Columbia claims Colonel Gildersleeve, and Williams will probably call on Mr. Orange Judd. The Forest and Stream also offers "to a college rifle-club, a member of which will furnish us with the best appropriate design for a vase or shield, a gold badge...
...stitch in the worst rip in the biler [here he winked], I don't see what's to hender but we mought get so's to be off some time Thursday, that's day after to-morrow. Anyhow, stranger, I would advise you to be round then." Well, the long and short is, it was cards and whiskey between the conductor, the station-man, Bill the engineer, the fireman, and myself for most of the next forty-eight hours till Thursday noon, when the conductor said we were all ready to start, if we only had another passenger...