Word: firing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Cole was born in London in 1852, and at five years of age came to New York with his father. He was apprenticed to the trade at sixteen, and after the Chicago fire left the firm of Bond & Chandler and found work for a short time with a New York periodical, called "Hearth and Home," before joining the "Christian Weekly." On the failure of Sutton's "Aldine Press" the late Alexander W. Drake called Mr. Cole into the service of the then "Scribner's Monthly," later known as the "Century Magazine." For the "Century" he has done the major part...
...literary and dramatic criticisms which close the number are of average quality. The reviewer of the "Pillar of Fire" would have been more interesting if he had been more specific as to the nature of Mr. Deming's charges against American universities. A detailed discussion of such a book is surely very much the business of the Advocate...
Joseph Manley Mellen '17, of Garden City, L. I., N. Y., has just been awarded the Croix de Guerre for conspicuous bravery under fire while driving an ambulance in the service of the American Ambulance Corps in France last summer...
...awarded the great honor for unusually heroic work in driving his ambulance over exceptionally difficult mountain roads under shell fire, almost continuously, for eight days, during which time he obtained scarcely any sleep or rest...
...most up-to-date chemical laboratories in the country. It will replace the building which recently burned. The insurance of $50,000 on the old building, together with a recent gift of $40,000 by Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, will provide the means for a thoroughly fire-proof structure, the plans of which are being completed...