Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...alarm of fire which was sent out from College House yesterday noon was caused by smoke in the students' rooms which came from a furnace fire under Merrill's store. There was no fire in the building, but the flues did not carry off the smoke which poured down into the fireplaces of the different rooms...
Shortly after 4.15 yesterday afternoon an alarm was rung in from the box in Harvard Square, and a few minutes afterward the engine and hose carriage came tearing into the college yard and drew up before the front of Matthews. Another engine with accompanying hose carriage and hook and ladder company meanwhile was stationed in the Square. The cause of the excitement was a slight blaze in the basement of Matthews. Had not the fire been accidentally discovered, however, it would have soon done much damage. Mr. Blum, '90, in going to the south basement, noticed a cloud of smoke...
...alarm was rung in from box 59 yesterday morning for a slight fire in 22 College House. No damage was done beyond the burning of a lambrequin. The appearance of the fire engine and hose carriage, however, excited considerable commotion in the recitation rooms looking out upon the square...
...English alcove. "Divorce" is one of the subjects discussed by Professor Peabody in Philosophy eleven. And it should be said that it is one of the most important and difficult questions with which our States have at present to deal. Because of the dangerous increase of divorce, the consequent alarm of the people, and the rise and spread of agitation on the subject, it has become a live and serious question. In the December number of the Andover Review, Rev. A. P. Peabody says: "Christian civilization at the present time is encountering no peril of so dire portent...
GLOBE THEATRE.- Harry Lacey in "The Still Alarm...