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Fire brigades from the American and Italian Legations were refused admittance to the sacred precincts. The Chinese bucket brigades were inefficient, and several millions of dollars worth of property were destroyed before an Italian hose, manned by Chinese, was used to extinguish the blaze...
...Ehrensperger's suggestion in the Alumni Bulletin that we extinguish the flames of college radicalism by pouring tea on them, is a little less quaint than it might appear at first blush. Indeed, one could go so far as to say that it would in all probability meet the approval of Mr. Calvin Coolidge himself and the editors of the Delineator. Certain skeptics, it is true, have irreverently questioned the accuracy of Mr. Coolidge's observation, and have asked to be shown signs that there really is any radicalism among college students. They point out that the average undergraduate exceeds...
...hell on earth and all human relations appear unbearable. To consider its all embracing terror is to shudder. To find one's proper place in its cauldron of sacrifice and suffering is to find life and death worth experiencing. The whole world is a flaming building which we must extinguish. It calls, as nothing in history has called, for the aid of every available person who believes it worth the saving...
...small fire in one of the Physics 3 laboratory rooms of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory startled members of the staff shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon. An alarm was sounded, but the staff managed practically to extinguish the blaze before the arrival of the apparatus. The fire started as the result of a closed switch left by a negligent student Tuesday night. The switch was under a wooden box and when an unusually strong current was passed through the system yesterday morning the box overheated and ignited...
Fire broke out last night in Trinity Hall at a quarter past ten. The fire was confined at first to the partitions and floorings, which made it very difficult to extinguish. The blaze started in room 10, occupied by D. C. Barnes '02 and H. B. Stevens '03, both of whom were away at the time. The probable cause was the short circuiting of an electric light wire. The whole interior of the two upper floors was burned out and much of the contents of the rooms destroyed. In the lower rooms the little property which was removed was injured...