Word: fire
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...purposes of municipal government cannot be carried out by State or national governments.- a. Protection of the citizens through: 1. Police; 2. Fire department; 3. Health dept., sewerage, etc.; 4. Street dept.- b. Improvement of citizens through: 1. Schools; 2. Libraries, museums, etc.; 3. Parks.- c. Carrying on great public works; 1. Water; 2. Water-front; 3. Gas; Bryce...
...Local government ought usually to engage the first interest of the citizens.- a. They more directly affect the individual. Ex. schools, fire dept., etc. b. Local taxes are greater than state and national.- c. Greater than state and nationa.- c. Greater influence of individual on local affairs...
...Birge Harrison's "New Departure in Parisian Art," and poems by Dr. Holmes, T. W. Parsons, R. W. Gilder and Helen Gray Cone. One other article deserves especial mention, that on Cardinal Newman. The present installments of the serials do not indicate any disposition to set the world on fire...
...first specimens occupied two cases in the room directly in front of the stairs. Wall cases were soon added in this room, and so the process has gone on till the collection has reached its present magnitude. Under the first room is a laboratory, where fire is liable to originate at any time. Consequently it has long been the desire of Professor Cook and Dr. Huntington to have some fire proof building in which to place these valuable specimens. The outcome of their desire is the south wing of the new museum. The collection will be taken there from Boylston...
...basement of the new building are rooms for analysis and assaying, and also a fire proof room which is to be provided with smelting furnaces. Over these on the first floor are the general laboratories, the library, the assistant's room and the lecture room. The general laboratories contain tables covered with tiles, which will provide working places for eighty students. Each student is given an iron box in which to keep his instruments. These boxes are arranged in tiers along the wall. On the second floor are special laboratories for advanced classes. On the third floor the entire space...