Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...president and fellows of Harvard College have appropriated $100 for the Boston firemen's relief fund, in recognition of the service done by the fire department at the new building of the Medical School, on Boylston street, one night last...
...door practice on the campus began Friday April 13th, and there will be daily practice at 2 P. M. on the new athletic field, which will shortly be in good condition for use. Games arranged for April are, 21st with Pine Streets of Holyoke, 25th and 28th with Westfield Firemen. The chances of the faculty's rescinding its action on inter-collegiate sports are very fair...
Over a hundred firemen were injured at a fire in Havana on Sunday night...
...story is told by the Cambridge firemen which ought not to miss getting into print. At the recent fire in the Cambridge car-shops, in Dunster street, one of the engineers wanted help in raising a ladder, and, seeing a man standing on the sidewalk near by, he called to him, "Here, you, give us a lift." The man responded with alacrity, and a moment later when the engineer took a better look at him he discovered that his assistant was President Eliot of Harvard University. An apology was begun, but the president graciously declared it was all right...
...Cambridge city government have ordered that "the expediency of having the permanent men of the fire department suitably uniformed" be considered. New uniforms will doubtless enable the firemen to reach a fire in Harvard square from ten to fifteen minutes sooner than they...