Word: burned
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...course there is little probability of the occurrence of such a fire, but buildings always burn unexpectedly, and there is always some danger as long as there is light or heat in a building. Besides gas, there are electric lights in Sever, and the crossing of wires is apparently a common cause of fires. Furthermore, even officers of the University are in the habit of smoking not only in the hallways, but among papers and boxes in the washroom in the basement. At least there is some risk of what might prove a calamity, and there ought to be none...
...MacLeod '05, N. R. Olds '05, S. Wilder '05, L. R. Coffin '06, E. W. Jones '07, H. L. Murphy '08, S. F. Strothers '08; second tenors--S. N. Hinckley '05, P. Perkins '05, M. Tilden '05, G. H. Cox '05, H. B. Sawyer '06, J. J. Hep- burn '06, L. Harrison '07, C. W. Marsh '08; first basses--W. W. Manton '05, J. Tuckerman '05, S. Titcomb '06, W. Parker '06, J. J. Rowe '07, A. M. Harlow '07, C. L. Hay '08, G. V. Brown '08, L. J. Snyder '08; second basses--C. J. Webber...
...rope through a device which grips it tightly (preventing the descent from being too rapid). This would take at least ten minutes after the seat of the escape has been thrown back up to the window. Meanwhile the remaining occupant of the room would probably be suffocated or burned. As the wooden stairs would be the first thing to burn in a fire in any building, it seems only reasonable to demand a fire-escape for every occupant of a room. Yet reasonable as this is, it is almost a certainty that the authorities will never satisfy the demand. They...
...selling on Sunday $10 a month instead of $5. When the reform administration of Mayor Strong went out of office the tariff went back to the old schedule." And Mr. Low in his letter to Dr. Parkhurst says, "the pressure of strict enforcement causes the fires of blackmail to burn as with a forced draught and only doubles the inducements for blackmail." The second moral evil which would accompany an attempt at strict enforcement, is the increase in those places where liquor can be legally sold on Sunday, the Raines Law hotels. "The Liquor Problem," a work prepared under...
...preliminary round of the University golf tournament will commence this afternoon on the Brae Burn course with the following matches: A. S. Thurston '03 vs. B. C. ower '05, M. G. Beaman 3L. vs. R. D. Lapham '05, R. F. Maning '04 vs. W. C. Egan '05, C. Hutchinson '04 vs. F. H. Appleton...