A number of the workmen employed by the college were drilled yesterday in the use of the fire ladders stored in the basements of the dormitories. Their performance in point of celerity and expertness could hardly be called satisfactory; yet the phenomenon of seeing the least heed paid by the college to the warning of words or of experience in this matter is so unusual as to deserve comment and praise. The college evidently considers a dozen or so of permanent fire escapes as too heavy an expenditure to be made for the trivial purpose of insuring the safety of occupants of the dormitories, but on urgent warning does not object to drilling its employes in the use of cumbersome fire ladders. This is a distinction entirely worthy of so "conservative" a body as the Harvard Corporation.
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