Word: fired
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Bigelow '04 was run over by a fire engine at the corner of Quincy street and Broadway at 7.45 last night and was instantly killed...
Shortly before that time a fire broke out in a pile of timber in front of the new Architectural Building and four engines responded to an alarm that was rung in. The fire was extinguished very quickly, but a large crowd of students collected at once and surrounded the engines. The horses drawing the chemical engine started forward suddenly and dashed through the crowd. Bigelow, who was directly in front of the engine, was knocked down by the horses and was crushed by one of the wheels...
...petition of the Harvard Dining Association, the Corporation agrees to advance the money necessary for building in the dining hall a fire-proof floor with fire-proof stairs and partitions at the east end; also for cold-storage and electric-lighting plants, and for ventilation of the kitchen, and to charge interest upon these advances from the end of the current financial year upon the standing debt of the association, at the rate of four and a half per cent a year...
...proposed changes, the most important and expensive will be that of replacing the present floor of the hall by one that will be fire-proof. The present wooden floor and beams will be replaced by iron beams, surmounted by brick arches with a cement covering. On this it was originally intended to put a mosaic or tiled floor, but as this would have prevented holding Senior dances, a hard oak floor will be substituted, and the expense of this will be shared in all probability by the Association and the funds of future Class Day Committees until...
...Waltz, "Vienna Blood," Strauss. 3. Gavotte, for String Orchestra, Bach. 4. Prelude to the "Master Singers of Nuremberg." Wagner. 5. Preludes to Act I. and act III., "Lohengrin" Wagner. 6. Waltz, "Harlequin's Wedding," Zach. 7. Albumblatt, Wagner. 8. Overture, to "Rienzi," Wagner. 9. "Traumbilder." Fantasy, Lumbye. 10. "Fire Charm," from "Walkure," Wagner. 11. Waltz, "Jolly Fellows," Vollstedt. 12. Austria March, Zach...