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There was some smoke, but there wasn't much fire yesterday morning when the whole of the Cambridge fire department showed up in front of Sever Hall...
...firemen arrived quickly, but they had some difficulty penetrating into the Yard because the main gates were still locked. Although several onlookers expressed the hope that this obstacle might prove to be the end of old Sever, the day was saved when the portals were thrown open and the firemen extinguished what was left of the confiagaration...
Vital necessities, such as water, pumps, sever pumps, five alarms, radio facilities, hospital services, etc., are not to be disturbed...
Voting tables will be set up in all the House dining halls, Widener, Harvard Hall, Sever Hall, Emerson Hall, Dudley and all the final and waiting clubs...
...perhaps another, the Deutschland), the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, four heavy and perhaps eight light cruisers, about 25 destroyers. This was probably more than the British could quickly assemble at any one pressure point. Such a striking force could be used with overwhelming effect against convoys. It could sever British lines to Archangel and the Mediterranean. It might raid Iceland, as the U.S. Fleet had raided the Marshall Islands with devastating effect. It could, as it did last week, draw off most of Britain's effective naval and air strength in one direction-the perfect precondition for invasion...