Word: firing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...obvious just how it will make every citizen ready to become a soldier at a moment's notice, especially when French, British and American army experts fix six months as the minimum training for recruits Rating an any after an emergency is much like organizing a fire department after the outbreak of a conflagration...
Wednesday evening, May 7, has been set as the date for the postponed Sophomore Smoker. The Smoker was to have been held on Thursday, May 1, but it was impossible to obtain permission from the fire authorities to use the building on that day, because of the Senior Smoker on the preceding evening. The postponed Smoker will be held in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock...
News that the 1921 Smoker has been indefinitely postponed, because the Cambridge Fire Department will not allow the holding of two successive parties in the Union, is at best mysterious. Does the Fire Department fear that two such gathering will result in a combustible effect? Or does the Fire Chief consider that the left-over warmth of one evening will mean no less than sheer conflagration the next? Frankly, we are puzzled. Perhaps the Department's statistician has slightly miscalculated the average life of an undergraduate cigarette...
Because of the rigid enforcement by the Cambridge Fire Department of the technicalities of the City Fire Code, the Committee in charge of the 1921 Smoker, scheduled for tomorrow night in the Union, has announced that the entertainment has been indefinitely postponed. The authorities refused a permit for the smoker when they learned that the Senior Class was holding its smoker there this evening. The Fire Department stated that it was contrary to rules to permit two entertainments to be held in the Union on two successive nights. The reason for the regulation being in the Code is unknown. Sometime...
...their belief was the first, they were playing with fire, since the problem is too great and too vital to be a basis for "sport." In the second case their action takes away what is at present the only weapon--the strike--with which the employees of the telephone company can obtain redress for wrong or indeed even attention to their requests at Washington. That emergency calls should be handled is desirable, but let the government provide such service without the aid of undergraduates. Of those students who conscientiously believed the strike to be wrong, there can be no criticism...