Word: rung
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Every year Harvard graduates a body of men who at once go into some office or begin on the lowest rung of the ladder. Some of these men during their residence in Cambridge may have received only an impractical smattering of French or German, a hazy familiarity with the habits and private life of the Ancient Romans, and perhaps a more or less thorough understanding of the Indian tribes of the southwest and the varieties of the daisy in Middlesex county. Few men confine themselves to these subjects, but even such information, however trivial it may seem at first thought...
...school building, was endangered last evening by the occurrence of a small fire. The fire, which was due to spontaneous combustion, started in the basement of the hall, and had made considerable head-way when discovered at about 9 o'clock by the night watchman. Two alarms were rung in immediately, and the fire was quickly extinguished, as soon as the engines arrived. The loss, estimated at about $250.00 was chiefly of plumbers' tools and store lumber, so that the progress of the hall was not materially set back...
...fire-alarm wires were tampered with last Tuesday was known at the fire-alarm office, but the location of a place of injury, in the basement of Thayer Hall, was not found till Thursday. An alarm was finally given by telephone, and box number 54 at Memorial Hall was rung. The great fire damage would have been prevented if the varnish pot had been set into the fire-place, or if it had been thrown out of a window. I may add that if anyone had promptly used the fire extinguisher, located on the second floor of this entry...
Shortly before that time a fire broke out in a pile of timber in front of the new Architectural Building and four engines responded to an alarm that was rung in. The fire was extinguished very quickly, but a large crowd of students collected at once and surrounded the engines. The horses drawing the chemical engine started forward suddenly and dashed through the crowd. Bigelow, who was directly in front of the engine, was knocked down by the horses and was crushed by one of the wheels...
...that in your editorial of yesterday morning, you brought the question of the disposal of the Old Bell before the public notice. For nearly seventy years at least, and, if the tradition that the bell of 1793 was recast, be true, for over a century, the Old Bell has rung from the belfry of Harvard Hall. Even if considerations of historic value and association go for naught, the mere fact of its long and faithful service should give it some claim upon the sentiment of the University. For the Corporation to sell it for the small sum which the weight...