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...alarm, rung in from box 481 at University Hall at 9:29 o'clock, brought three engine companies, two ladder companies, one rescue company, and countless delighted students to the scene. Brought to the public eye by the fire was the fact that the University Hall warning signal is the only fire alarm box in the Yard. A few minutes' delay occurred when the Navy sentry who first reached the call box failed to pull the alarm lever...
...alarm, rung in from box 481 at University Hall at 9:29 o'clock, brought three engine companies, two ladder companies, one rescue company, and countless delighted students to the scene. Brought to the public eye by the fire was the fact that the University Hall warning signal is the only fire alarm box in the Yard. A few minutes' delay occurred when the Navy sentry who first reached the call box failed to pull the alarm lever...
...Record. In Seattle, Chief Petty Officer T. Kelly, home at last from the South Pacific, leaned a ladder against a monument to the war dead, climbed to his own name, with a paint brush set the record straight...
...Course starts off with an appetizer of hurdles. The second course on the menu is the high frame ladder for stretching all those weary muscles; and then from the heights down to the depths of a fire trap. Then just to keep themselves going, they practice the art of balancing on a forty-foot combination of zigzag rails. Next, as if they hadn't had enough they go back up into the air over a seven foot wall, clambering over it in a manner similar to the way Tarzan swings from tree to tree, with the aid of ropes...
...forty yards between obstacles, jump six feet, grab the rope and swing across the chasm to the other side. Another spring of forty feet, another hurdle and then the dessert, (boy, what a meal.) Everyone likes a large, sweet, mouth-watering dessert. The Obstacle Course provides exactly that. A ladder extends in the air for thirty feet. You go up one side and down the other. If you can survive this course, you are a cinch to be good for that last mile you have to run to catch a fleeing German or Jap. In that case the Obstacle Course...