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...secure the safety of students in case of fire. For each room above the second story a coil of rope will be provided, with one end fastened to a hook attached to a staple. The coil will rest upon a handle and will be kept in place by a strap, so that it will at all times be ready for instant service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor | 9/28/1888 | See Source »

LOST.- On Friday afternoon on Fresh Pond, a neck scarf and strap. Finder will please return...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notices. | 1/9/1888 | See Source »

FOUND. - In Matthews Hall a pointer puppy with plain strap collar. Owner can get him at 22 Matthews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notices | 5/13/1887 | See Source »

...walls of the exit room are covered with feather-beds, and after rebounding against these a number of times, your speed slackens enough to allow you to catch hold of a strap and thus stop yourself. Then the man in charge telephones to the man at the Gymnasium to send on the next victim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDISON'S LATEST. | 3/5/1880 | See Source »

...rowing-weight used in his time was very different from the one in use now. A thousand strokes a day at the hydraulic machines used by our crew necessarily brings out the pluck and endurance of the candidates for the boat. Pulling at an iron weight attached to a strap was a different thing, and might well have the effect our correspondent fears. An extract from an English paper on the construction of racing-boats, which accompanied the letter, but which was too long for insertion in our columns, we have banded to the captain of the University crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/4/1876 | See Source »

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