Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fond of practical jokes and were too often getting into scrapes to please the more quiet townsfolk. Once when the engine had been newly repaired, the students decided to try its power on an old house which was to be set on fire at a certain time. But the alarm was given too soon and many of the town's people endeavored to save the building. The company, however determined that it should burn, dragged the engine to a pond near by and threw the dirty water upon the citizens in such quantities that they were glad to escape. Another...
...their own way and pushed '86 around the field, circling all around. When the rush was over rings were formed by hard struggling for the wrestling. Here the sophomores were very successful, winning nearly every match. A break for the gate was made by a false alarm...
...Dartmouth College records the ingenious devices of a couple of students who wished to light the fires without rising to do it. A correspondent who sends us the following extracts vouches for the accuracy of the statements therein made: "Van. constructed during the winter an apparatus which connected an alarm clock with a system of weights and pulleys, and these again with his stove door, so that when the machine was wound up and properly adjusted it could, at the precise moment agreed upon, ring a bell, wind up a spool, drop a weight, rattle a chair, slam shut...
...Yale News thinks that the man who could find the key to a fire-alarm box would "deserve to be the next president of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, or of Yale College." The abilities required for one office might, perhaps, be found useful in the other...
There was a fearful panic in a Catholic school in New York yesterday afternoon, caused by an alarm of fire. Fourteen scholars were killed and several injured...