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Page 32 text:
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I empty halls with their floors worn into splinters, and of the cold rooms; but they soon began to recall the good times they had had in this or that society hall; or how they had fooled a certain professor in some room, or the names they had carved upon the window- sills and chairs. The greatest consolation was that they would, in all probability, get out of classes for a week at least, for how could classes meet after the loss of two of the main buildings? The members of the instructional staffs shook their heads and said it would put them in a bad fix, as there had been little enough room before; then, too, there were many specimens lost in the Medical Building which could not be replaced for years. Quietly the faculty called a meeting, and by noon proofs of the programs for the Medical students were ready and the an- nouncement was made that classes in all departments would go on as usual the next morning, the places of meeting to be poste d upon the bulletin-boards later. Accordingly every student went to his eight o ' clock class Monday morning, possibly lamenting the loss of the anticipated holidays, but prouder of his Alma Mater. LBII.A KEMMKREK.
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was a blaze, and just as it burst out of the windows and doors two men came in sight of the campus. In a minute the alarm had been given and a crowd beg-an to gather. The hose carts soon reached the place, but the building was entirely enveloped in flames, and there was no hope of saving anything in it. The main attention of the fire company was directed to the new Liberal Arts Building, which was finally nearing completion. The people stood about in helpless groups, some judiciously seeking the shelter of buildings across the street, while others stood out in the open the men curled up with their hands in their pockets and their faces drawn far down in their coat collars to protect them from the driving sleet, which stung as it struck some unprotected spot. The women wore all sorts of wraps from table covers thrown about their heads to seal-skin coats. A few still clung frantically to umbrellas, which the wind often almost tore from them, but most of them held their umbrellas dripping and stiff at their sides. Every now and then some one fell, in trying to change his position, and got up again with a grim, enduring expres- sion upon his face made more grim lit up by the blaze mixed with the gloomy blackness of the night. The fire seemed to have about died out. and many had already started home, when the cry was raised that South Hall was on fire. They hurried back, and saw that the south side of the brick building was already ablaie. Students hurried out from the midst of the crowd into the building. Chairs were thrown from the windows, men came out with desks, pictures, busts, pianos, and finally with a carpet from the society halls on the third floor. Others, of the in- structional staff, appeared with armfuls of books, papers, etc: handed their burdens to any one stand- ing near and hurried back again into the quickly burning building. It is said that a great explosion was heard when the orations of the Zetagathians and Irv- ings caught fire, and that the Irvings began to tear from the walls the paper wh ich had been put on at the beginning of the term. When the top floor fell in, a sigh went up from some of the society members, while some turned away for a minute. The rest of the building burned, quickly, and gradually the flames, reflected in the water and ice, became less fierce, until only a blaze shot up now and then. The crowd had gradually thinned out. and the last few stragglers went quietly away. When day came it was still dark and rainy, but groups of people kept coming and going to look upon all that was left of the two well known old buildings four charred brick walls, with parts fallen away, and, in the middle, a black smoking heap. The townspeople looked almost with satisfaction declaring that it was well the old buildings were gone, that they had been condemned years ago and were no longer fit for use. The students at first seemed inclined to rejoice that this was the last of those
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