Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college to the city, - hence, the students feel that they are exercising a sort of proprietary right in accompanying it to fires. The second supposition, however, would seem to be the more probable, since it shows up in the light of self-interest this tendency to respond to alarms. Every student who rooms in the older dormitories in the yard knows that it is only a question of time when he may be compelled to rush for his life from his blazing building. He trains himself, therefore, for the inevitable crisis by getting out-of-doors as soon as possible...
...alarm of fire from box 78 at 10.50 last night brought more than half the men in college to Fresh Pond. Those who took the two mile run over fields, fences, ditches, and barbed wire, were well repaid for their trouble by one of the grandest sights that has been seen around Cambridge for a long time. For over an hour four large ice houses were a mass of flames. There was no ice in the buildings, but there was a quantity of sawdust which added to the brilliancy of the conflagration...
...false alarm of fire from box 53, at 9.50 last evening, brought out the usual large delegation of students...
...alarm from box 54, Memorial Hall, at 8.40 last evening emptied the dormitories inside of two minutes. The fire proved to be in the old barn which stands near the Physical Laboratory. It made a very pretty blaze...
...Alarm 61 struck at about ten o'clock last evening. The Cambridge Fire Department gave an excellent exhibition to half of Harvard and the whole of Cambridge. The fire was in a small shop back of the Cambridge car stables...