Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Automatic fire sprinklers are being installed in the basement of Harvard Hall as a result of considerable agitation o the part of the University authorities as well as the student body. For some time it has been felt that Harvard Hall was a dangerous fire trap having narrow staircases and no fire escapes. With the sprinklers installed the University authorities say that the danger from fire will be reduced to a minimum because there are no furnace fires in the building, all heat coming from the Boston Elevated Railway Company power house...
...Enthusiasm grips me! Is it truly a superior life that I shall find there ? I hope it, since I go, but I am not sure. ... If the true indeed is there, what matter money losses? Fatigue, even danger, are nothing. I feel ready to brave all to go and receive, in the New Rome, the revolutionary baptism...
...There is no danger of the exhaustion of the world's supply...
Governor Crissinger of the Reserve Board called attention to the spreading tendency of national banks all over the country to surrender their charters and become state institutions, and to the danger which this development holds for the Reserve System, which is, of course, based upon the national banking system He neglected to add, probably with no little self-restraint, that one great reason for the drift to state charters is the constant government interference with national banks through continued tinkering with the Federal Reserve Act by Washington politicians...
Some of the manifest danger of this condition were made evident by the results of the game in the Stadium last Saturday. One team ranks as heroes, in the history of the sporting page, through having conquered, by peace if not victory, the "mighty Harvard"; the other meets criticism filled with innuendo for having bowed to "defeat". What actually happened was that eleven college men, differing little in fact from other undergraduates, met eleven others and played to a tie score...