Word: fired
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...slight fire due to overheated evens, broke out about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon in the basement of Memorial Hall. Sparks were drawn up the ventilating shaft and set fire to its interior. Before the engines arrived, however, the flames were completely under control. The only damage done was to the ventilator and some electric light wires...
...Corporation has recently voted to take measures for reducing the danger from fire in the Yard, and to this end it has been decided to make extensive additions to the apparatus at present available, and to institute a number of other improvements, the total cost of which will be over two thousand dollars. A six-inch water main will be run from Kirkland street to Massachusetts avenue, along the line of Stoughton, Hollis, and Matthews. To this will be attached three hydrants, the first of which will be placed opposite Holden Chapel, the second opposite Harvard Hall, and the third...
...keyless fire alarm box, connecting with the Cambridge fire department will be placed on the east side of University Hall, an automatic bell in the box giving notice to persons in the immediate vicinity. The cards indicating where fire apparatus is stored, and stating the location of alarm boxes in and near the property of the University, are being revised and will soon be posted in conspicuous places...
...style of rope fire-escape has been placed in all rooms of Yard dormitories above the second floor, and all have been thoroughly tested. Some further precautions have also been taken in regard to the storage of inflammable rubbish...
...stated by the chairman of the Class Day Committee that it would probably be impossible to hold exercises about the Statue this year because they necessitate the use of wooden stands, which, during the exercises, offer such danger from fire that the Corporation will probably prohibit their erection if the class itself does not wish to abandon them. A letter to that effect from the secretary of the President was read by the chairman. Such being the case, it was argued that exercises could be held to advantage in the round end of the Stadium, where there would be opportunity...