Word: waken
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...connection with the above the following will be of interest. Several months ago the Corporation authorized the installation of automatic gongs in dormitories to waken the occupants in case of night fires. The apparatus required was special, and it was only recently that apparatus was approved for this purpose. It will be installed as soon as it can be manufactured. Automatic sprinklers are being installed at critical points in the basements. Very truly yours, WALTER S. BURKE. Inspector
...found them there, Moody, Mackaye, Carpenter, and Hunt; today they are gone, and the bubbling Castalian spring of college verse has been transformed into a sluggish fountain pen. The Harvard Monthly, famous for over twenty-five years for the quality and finish of its verse, should first attempt to waken the spirit of true poetical inspiration, and add new lustre to its honorable roll. May the editors never forget the fact, that a pretty good poem is like a pretty good...