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...showed that it came from room 11 occupied by E. S. Grifling and M. A. Kilvert, '89. An alarm was sounded from box 59, which brought several engines and a large crowd to the spot. The door was burst open and the floor was found to be in a blaze. It is probable that coals from the grate fell out upon the floor and burnt a hole through. The fire then crept along under the floor and burst out again in the center of the room. The flames were quickly extinguished by the firemen, acting under the directions of President...
...stock. Most of the occupants had, however, a partial insurance. The fire is supposed to have been an incendiary, there being every evidence that it was set in the rear of the carpenter's shop on the second floor. A large number of students were present and enjoyed the blaze...
...good many old Princeton boys around about here, and we naturally feel deeply grieved at the humorous Dr. Holmes insinuating that Princeton had been girdled around by Styx until Harvard enlightened her, and that Harvard had set fire to Calvinism and was burning it up in a blaze of truth...
Till every watch ower shows its kindling blaze...
...unvarying accompaniment to extreme gratification? The truth is that all these puerilities gain their only attraction when under prohibition. There is some exhilaration in being chased from an inceptive conflagration by an officious proctor; but there is nothing so mournful as to split one's lungs in starting a blaze which no one cares to prevent, in setting off cannon-crackers alone and unobserved, or in blowing long and loudly on a tin horn merely for one's own recreation. We would remind the Yale faculty as well as our own august body, (whose action on this subject has been...