Word: alarmed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Fire Alarm Box No. 59 at Ramsay's store, Harvard square. Key at the store...
...Fire Alarm Box No. 54 at Memorial Hall, at the left of the south entrance. Key at the auditor's office. At night, ring the bell on the left...
Just twelve minutes after the alarm of fire sounded yesterday morning the Brattle-square engine reached Harvard square...
...attendance at the German universities has been increasing of late years to an extent which causes alarm in some quarters. The number of students has gone up from 15, 113 in the summer of 1872 to 23,834 in the summer of 1882. This increase amounts to no less than 57.6 per cent. That the demand of modern life for men of education has increased to such an extent as this is regarded as more than doubtful by many authorities. An official warning has just been issued against students taking up the law as a profession, as its ranks...
...Cornell students view with alarm a tendency alleged to exist at that college to fill all the professorships "with graduates of one of the leading colleges." "Furthermore," says the Sun, "we have not been indifferent while the peculiar institutions of that college have been initiated, or rather transplanted here, until Cornell almost begins to appear as a second annex." What a terrible thing an "annex" must...