Word: air
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...entry and staircase, no fire escape whatever on one side and on the other side a ladder which can be reached from one room on each floor. Of course if the tenant of that room is out, the door is locked. There is also a wooden stairway in the air shaft which requires no comment...
...rooms in number 38 on the top story was reading in his room when he smelt smoke, and on going into the entry was nearly stifled by the dense cloud which was rolling up from the floor below. He attempted to go down the wooden ladder in the air shaft but finding it on fire started down the stairs. Whether he forgot that from the end room in the entry he could reach the fire escape or whether the room was locked is not known. Suffice it to say that Henney reached the fourth floor, found it impossible...
...seem to have worked well and might meet with favor here. Whether any of these courses, prescribed or elective, counting or not giving credit for an A. B., are applicable, and whether the idea of a fixed course of indoor training is not dangerous in itself as discouraging open air exercise, are questions to be discussed at the conference this evening. It is to be hoped that they will meet with the careful consideration of many undergraduates, and that some conclusion, whether favorable or unfavorable, toward the adoption of a recognized course of Physical Training at Harvard will...
...death Monday, Feb. 7, at Saranac Lake, N. Y. Although threatened with consumption it was not known that the disease had so far advanced as to make his end near. He himself was planing his return to Cambridge from the Adirondacks, whither he had gone for a change of air when the fatal turn came. Mr. Hicks's mother who had gone to accompany him back was present and the many new friends he had made while there were ready with sympathy and help...
...observations taken on 152 nights the total number of photometric settings is 100, 052, which is greater than that obtained in any previous year. The observations of all the stars north of 40 degrees, of the magnitude of 7.5 and brighter, are nearly completed. The exploration of the upper air with kites lifting automatic instruments which record atmospheric conditions has been continued. Last September records were brought down from a height of 9,255 feet, which is the greatest altitude ever reached by kites, and later another ascent was made which promised to be still higher but the wires holding...