Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...breaking the lock in so doing and rendering removal of the ladder impossible. It could only have been raised by six men experienced in its use, however, and there were but two members of the department on the truck, the captain having run back to ring in a second alarm. The lieutenant of the truck company aided by several undergraduates then hurried to get out the life net which was spread below Henney, and only just in time, for even before it was sufficiently manned he was forced to jump. The smoke was so dense that he was invisible...
...horses of the Brattle square engine were being exercised when the alarm was rung in, the fire gained considerable headway before the steamer arrived and the first ho.e was run. As Chief Casey was delayed by an accident to his wagon and did not reach the scene of operations till some time after the two other engines had arrived, there was but little discipline among the firemen and the service inefficient. When work was really begun, however, the fire was quickly controlled and the building was not gutted. The woodwork from the third story up was seriously charred however...
With the most sincere respect for the point of view taken by the writers of these letters, we think that their alarm is a little unnecessary, and that they misinterpret the spirit in which the song was written and published. They read between the lines a combination of ill-timed overconfidence, and viciousness toward Yale. We know that the verses in question, as a matter of fact, gave voice to neither the one nor the other. We feel confident moreover that they were not so understood by undergraduates here, and that if noticed at all by Yale men, which...
WANTED.- A Harvard man to canvas this district for new burglar alarm. Enquire at CRIMSON office...
WANTED.- A Harvard man to canvas this district for new burglar alarm. Enquire at CRIMSON office...