Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...service on the railroads in case of a strike, registration of volunteers will continue this afternoon, when the emergency committee in charge of the arrangements in the University will hold office hours in the Lampoon Building from two until four o'clock. All undergraduates interested in working as firemen, conductors or brakemen should a strike be called may obtain information regarding release from college obligations and other details there...
...antiquated as they are inefficient, and Harvard has its vines and roof-balcony; but the only effective work which these appurtenances can accomplish is to cause the imprisoned undergraduate to spend valuable lecture hours in wondering whether it would be better in case of fire, to trust to the firemen or slide down a rain pipe...
Fifteen hundred Princeton students Tuesday signed pledges putting themselves at the disposal of the railroads for any kind of service, upon a call by Samuel Rea, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, for twenty-five firemen. Among the first to leave for New York on a special train were "Jack" Stubbing, all-American quarterback, and "Waddy" McPhee of the Princeton University eleven. Twenty-five more men left for service as firemen yesterday. Most of the men who went, had had experience in the railroad business during their summer vacations...