Coming so soon after the mighty upheaval at Hell Gate the explosion in the less infernal confines of College House will hardly attract its proper share of attention from the outside press. Yet the catastrophe of last night is the most serious that has be-fallen the college since our worthy yard watchman found a piece of wire-wound broomstick with a firecracker inserted in one end, and promptly reported the authorities a diabolical plot to blow up the dormitory buildings of the college. If matters do not make an immediate change for the better, it will not be many moons before the entering classes will begin to show a serious falling off in numbers. College life has too many dangers now, in the eyes of parents and guardians, without the added fear of annihilation by gas and gunpowder.
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