Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Civil Service Reform Club held its second smoke talk of the year in 23 Claverly last night. Dr. A. C. Coolidge gave a most interesting account of the Russian system of civil service, consisting of a bureaucracy in twelve grades which constitute the corresponding ranks of the nobility...
HARVARD CIVIL SERVICE REFORM CLUB.- Informal smoke talk at No. 23 Claverly this evening at 7 o'clock. Dr. A. C. Coolidge will address the club. Members are invited to bring their friends...
Shortly after 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon fire was discovered in the second or newer entry of Hilton Block in the broom closet on the third floor. It spread with great rapidity over the newly varnished wainscoating with such volumes of smoke that it was impossible to save anything in the rooms on the upper stoies. With but one exception, J. B. Henney, Jr., 1901, of Hartford, Conn., no one was caught in the building. Henney who rooms in number 38 on the top story was reading in his room when he smelt smoke, and on going into the entry...
...back to ring in a second alarm. The lieutenant of the truck company aided by several undergraduates then hurried to get out the life net which was spread below Henney, and only just in time, for even before it was sufficiently manned he was forced to jump. The smoke was so dense that he was invisible to those below and landing in the net near the weaker end almost before its holders knew it, his fall was only partially broken and he struck the sidewalk with considerable force, receiving a bad shaking up and possible internal injuries...
...Smoking is not absolutely prohibited as yet, but all are strongly advised to give it up, or at all events to smoke but little...