Word: fires
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Shortly after 10.30 o'clock last Thursday morning fire was discovered in room 22 on the second floor of the north entry of Hollis Hall. The fire, the cause of which is unknown, spread rapidly to the adjoining rooms by means of the gas pipes and for a time threatened the entire building. A. L. Thayer 1L. and four workmen with the aid of the University fire apparatus succeeded in holding the flames in check, however, until the arrival of the Cambridge Fire Department, which extinguished the fire after an hour's work...
Scribner's--"McAllister's Christmas" by A. Train '96; "Primavera," by G. C. Lodge '95; "By the Evening Fire," by E. S. Martin...
...Corporation voted to donate to the National Library, at Turin, Italy, which was partially destroyed by fire last spring, a collection of 100 duplicate books on Roman law and mediaeval history. By this act of assistance the University is expressing the obligations under which it was placed when a similar disaster affected the University Library in the middle of the eighteenth century...
...evening in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, when Mr. B. C. Marsh will speak on "The Tramp, a Luxury." Mr. Marsh has lived for years among tramps in both Europe and America, studying their habits and character, and is an expert social worker. At the time of the Baltimore fire, he was called to Baltimore in order to get the tramps out of the city, so as to lessen the difficulty of supplying food to the inhabitants. He is a speaker of wide reputation, and an authority on his subject...
There was a small fire in the east basement of Grays Hall Shortly before 11 o'clock yesterday morning. The blaze, which started in the waste paper bin, was extinguished with the aid of the College fire apparatus before the Fire Department arrived...