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...Knickerbocker Nuggets, "Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey," recommended in English, is offered at 65 cents; published price...
...Knickerbocker Nuggests, "Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey," recommended in English, is offered at 65 cents; published price...
...assist in the practice of sliding bases. It is a frame work 14 feet long about 4 feet high, covered with tightly-stretched canvas, which is in turn covered with a piece of carpet. The men rush the length of the cage, and throwing themselves on the machine, shoot headlong across its surface...
...alarm from box 54 last evening at about half past eight o'clock, called out an excited and eager mob of students, who rushed along in headlong haste, expecting to see Memorial Hall already in the resistless arms of the devouring element. After a delay of some minutes, it was discovered that the upper part of the house of Mr. Charles W. Sever, 12 Frisbie Place, was on fire. Engine No. 1 was the first to get to work, and was able to supply enough water without further assistance from the other engines. Inspired by the applause of hand-clapping...
...compelled to rush for his life from his blazing building. He trains himself, therefore, for the inevitable crisis by getting out-of-doors as soon as possible at the sound of the alarm bells. Moreover, he does not allow his training to stop at this point, he rushes headlong to the actual scene of the conflagration, and there studies carefully and intelligently the methods employed in saving life and property, not knowing how soon he may be called upon in person to put them into operation. But, - and in all seriousness, - the undergraduates know perfectly well that there is constant...