Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...UNTO him that hath shall be given" is a proverb of worldly, as well as heavenly, wisdom. There is a building belonging to the College, which is provided with two fire-escapes on the back, and iron balconies which can easily be connected on the front. Why Holyoke, being so well provided, should now have a new iron staircase, while the other College buildings have no protection, is an insoluble conundrum. Holyoke is a particularly dangerous building in case of fire, because of the number of "wells" which it contains. But Weld and Matthews both have elevator "wells," up which...
...iron stairway in Holyoke will cost about...
...Cambridge Fire Department proceeds to a fire inspires us with no confidence. So, as far as we can see, the alternative for a man in the top story of Weld, Matthews, or Thayer, with the firemen below him, would be to jump or burn, while a flexible or stationary iron ladder attached to the outside of the Hall, at the time would save his life, and satisfy now the apprehensions of a few alarmists, if such we must be called...
...FRESHMAN was heard to inquire of what possible utility was the iron fire-escape to the occupants of the upper story of Holyoke. Many a Senior or even graduate has confessed his inability to answer this conundrum...
...Classics, and occasionally glancing for explanation of difficult passages at a little book on the same subject, written by one Tacitus, which he held in his other hand. As the old gentleman turned to him, he wearily laid down his book, and settled his features into that cast-iron expression which is reserved expressly for such visitors...