Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...year is fires. Nowhere north of Halifax on the best authority of seasoned travelers, do such glorious fires take place as in Cambridge, In the dark of the night or the glare of the morn, while the midnight oil is theoretically burning, the deep bell of the fire alarm sounds. And forth from the Yard and the Gold Coast, from Widener and Phillips Brooks, from every shanty, dormitory or palace between Persis smith and Perkins, the rejoicing students rush...
Fire which broke out shortly before 8 o'clock last night destroyed the upper floor of the house built by the late Professor Alexander Agassiz '55, at 34 Quincy street, corner of Broadway, which he left in his will to the University. When the fire was discovered a still alarm was sent in and then a regular first and later a second alarm were sent in, calling engines from Brattle and Central squares. For an hour the trolley cars on Broadway were blocked...
Although no subsequent cases have developed in Princeton University since the death of Eric Brunnow, one new case was discovered Tuesday in the town. This has provoked even a stricter quarantine of all students, and no little alarm is felt...
...Boston Transcript, Main 6950 Christian Science Monitor, Back Bay 4330 CAMBRIDGE. Co-operative Society, Camb. 2385 or 880 Co-operative Branch, Camb. 141 Crimson Printing Co., Camb. 3390 Electric Light Co., Camb. 1170 Express: Adams, Camb. 2210 American, Camb. 524 Anderson, Camb. 2380 Sawin, Camb. 2165 Fire Alarm, Camb. 368 Police, Camb. 423 Kneeland, J. E., Camb. 4708-M. McCarter, R. S., Camb. 4642-W. McMarter & Kneeland, Camb. 3390 Taxicab, Camb. 144 or 3900 University Press, Camb. 1330 HARVARD COLLEGE. Alumni Association, Fort Hill 3376 Athletic Association, Camb. 685 College Office, Camb. 1073 Dining Halls, Camb. 1073 Graduate Schools, Camb...
...paint shop, in the small wing of Lawrence Hall, near the Music Building, was damaged to the extent of $300 or $400 by fire yesterday afternoon. The fire started in a workman's locker about 5.15 o'clock, probably from spontaneous combustion. The smoke soon attracted attention, and an alarm was turned in. The smoke from the paint and oil was very dense, but the fire was confined to two rooms, and did not reach the adjoining office in the passageway to Lawrence Hall, where preparations had been made to remove the more important papers...