Word: small-pox
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...boisterous kind, that a Cambridge policeman is a pitiless avenger of students' escapades, whose only desire is to lie around corners and get students into trouble. If such persons would call upon the veteran policeman whom we found in the station the other day when we were investigating the "small-pox scare," all of his fears of this monster would be dispelled, and he would find him a pleasant, rugged-faced man, glad to talk on subjects best suited for a student's entertainment. After we had found that the report concerning the case of small-pox in college...
...Boston boy, with vague fears of the small-pox scourge, translates Arma virumque cano, "I sing of arms and the virus...
...Small-pox has spread to such an extent in Port au Prince that it has become an epidemic...
...Cambridge Tribune accounts for the rumor of small-pox as follows: "The small-pox excitement originated on Wendell street, by the hanging out of a scarlet cloth to call in a fishman. This act was sufficient to start the rumor that a student had been taken from the house to a hospital where he was down with the small-pox, and that a young lady in another house on the same street was sick with the same disease. There has not been a case in the city so far as we can learn. Imagination sometimes is very vivid in anticipation...
...rumors have been circulated that there was a case of small-pox in college, we have investigated the matter carefully, and find that such rumors are entirely groundless. When the rumor was first started the police were, of course, notified. They looked the matter up carefully, and found that there was no foundation for any fears of having small-pox in college, or in Cambridge, either, for that matter. A person should be very careful about circulating such reports, as they not only cause great uneasiness in college, but are copied throughout the country. Very soon we expect to learn...