Word: fires
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...should like to call attention to the possibility, under existing conditions of an appalling loss of life in case of fire in Sever Hall. There are no fire-escapes, and there is only one stairway leading to the ground floor. If a fire were to get started up this stairway during a recitation hour, several hundred men would probably be compelled to jump from the second or third story windows. The ladders of the College fire apparatus are quite inadequate for dealing with such large numbers...
...course there is little probability of the occurrence of such a fire, but buildings always burn unexpectedly, and there is always some danger as long as there is light or heat in a building. Besides gas, there are electric lights in Sever, and the crossing of wires is apparently a common cause of fires. Furthermore, even officers of the University are in the habit of smoking not only in the hallways, but among papers and boxes in the washroom in the basement. At least there is some risk of what might prove a calamity, and there ought to be none...
...room is decorated in white and light green. A semi-circular serving room finished in dark oak occupies one of its sides. Two white marble stairways with iron balustrades lead to the second floor, on which are the living room and the auditorium. The living room has a large fire-place at either end, and is finished in dark oak. The auditorium, which will seat 500 people, has a stage and balcony, and is decorated in white and green. Two balconies, one overlooking the living room and the other in the auditorium, occupy the third floor. The fourth contains four...
Twenty-five more of these fire extinguishers have been ordered, and will be placed in the various buildings belonging to the University as soon as they are received...
Twenty-five new Badger fire extinguishers have recently been installed in buildings of the University as follows: one in the office of the Hemenway Gymnasium; one in the professor's coat room and one in the basement of Gore Hall; one on the first floor, one on the second floor, and one on the third floor, in the halls, of Boylston Hall; one on the second and another on the fourth floor of Holyoke House; one in Upper Dane and one in the Bursar's Office in Dane Hall; one on the third floor of the north entry of Matthews...