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...fleet of six Cambridge fire trucks hustled over to Mather Hall last night at 9 p.m. with sirens screaming. 'While a ladder was raised to the roof, and while students were shouting "I smell it but can't see it," firemen spent five minutes in locating and dousing the blase. The undramatically small leaf are, found in a window well next to the entrance of Mather Hall C, was probably caused by a misplaced cigarette...
...business world: "Stupid, stupid, stupid. Businessmen got ahold of the country in the twenties and look what happened. It's simple, if you're at the low end of the academic ladder in college, you go into business...
...before the U.S. Civil War, Vermont's farm-bred Congressman Justin Smith Morrill looked about him and saw an ill-trained nation speeding toward "decay and degradation." His bold proposal: launch land-grant colleges in every state to educate farmers, mechanics and "those at the bottom of the ladder who want to climb up." On a tense day in July 1862-as McClellan frittered away the Union Army at Malvern Hill-Lincoln signed the Morrill Act that gave 17.4 million acres to "people's colleges." So began the biggest effort in the history of man to hand higher...
...Cambridge ladder companies rushed to the scene and doused the flames, but were unable to determine the cause of the fire...
...sank the super-battleship Yamato, sent out with a handful of destroyers as the only blue-water resistance that the imperial Japanese fleet could muster when the U.S. Navy came slamming up the island ladder to Okinawa on Easter Sunday 1945. So obviously sacrificial was Yamato's "last gasp" mission against Admiral Raymond A. Spruance's Fifth Fleet that the great ship was given only enough fuel for a one-way trip from Japan. The battle for Okinawa, at the homeland's very door, was the death struggle of Japan, and its capture was the largest, longest...