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college buildings to demolish them. The writer remembers another 

 occasion when there was a collision between students and firemen, and 

 one of the firemen was mortally wounded by a pistol-shot. That 

 night the dormitories were bolted and barred and the students acted 

 like a besieged party, and were making preparations for a possible 

 fight the next day. In those same good old times there were more 

 frequent disturbances between classes. There were snow-ball fights, 

 too, on the campus, to the great destruction of window-glass. Accord- 

 ing to the testimony of men in the college in those days, drunkenness 

 was more common. Certainly within the last twenty years the college 

 sentiment with regard to intoxication has undergone a change for the 

 better. Before that period a student given to this vice did not neces- 



