Word: getting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...four class crews rowed on the river yesterday afternoon. The Senior, Sophomore and Freshman crews had their barges out and made up eights, but '99 were unable to get out in their barge as the boat was not rigged. All of the men were taken out for tubbing practice, however. The work of all of the crews was unusually good for the first day on the water, and was in marked contrast to the early work of last year...
...responsibility for this state of affairs lies not with the men themselves, but with the system. Cambridge can never have an efficient fire service until the antiquated "volunteer" or "call system" is done away with. The men can not get to a fire quickly. When they do get there, they necessarily lack training and discipline. Captain McNamee of the Brattle St. station says that in the majority of the fires he attends he has to rely on the assistance of outsiders...
...WERE YOU BURNED OUT? Here's your chance. You can get a suite of two or three rooms in Trinity Hall for the rest of the year for $60. Electric light, steam heat, open fires, hot and cold water, shower baths. Fire escape in rear and rope fire escapes in each room. Apply on the premises...
DESIRABLE room to let, $50.00 for the rest of the year. 25 Holyoke House, third floor front. Two bed rooms. Shower baths on the same floor. This is a good chance for men who got burned out to get another room cheap...
...could only have been raised by six men experienced in its use, however, and there were but two members of the department on the truck, the captain having run back to ring in a second alarm. The lieutenant of the truck company aided by several undergraduates then hurried to get out the life net which was spread below Henney, and only just in time, for even before it was sufficiently manned he was forced to jump. The smoke was so dense that he was invisible to those below and landing in the net near the weaker end almost before...