Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Direct Wire to Soldiers Field...
...University track management has made arrangements for a direct wire from New Haven to Soldiers Field on Saturday afternoon, by means of which the results of the Harvard-Yale dual meet at New Haven will be announced during the Harvard 1918-Yale 1918 meet. In connection with the Freshman meet in the Stadium on Saturday, the annual Harvard Interscholastic meet will be held, the preliminaries starting in the morning at 11 o'clock, and the finals being held after the Freshman meet in the afternoon. 165 entrants, from 25 different schools, will compete. Lunch will be served for the schoolboys...
With the stands of uniform height, 21 rows, the seating capacity will be increased from 5,400 to 7,000. The wire netting will be enlarged in order to protect these connecting sections...
...Drury closes with the following admonition: "Let men under thirty, of good education, consider the call to be all things to all boys. Let the men in the cage downtown, who see life through a wire mesh, put the problem of bonds versus boys. There are many misfits and many sad dislocations. Let the man who has mistaken a chance vacancy for a vocation think twice before he spends his life persuading himself that the one is the other. There are men selling dry-goods who ought to be breaking bronchos; there are men in the mills who ought...
Although it is an old subject, the fact remains that Sever Hall would be very dangerous in case of a fire. There are no outside fire escapes, and the stairs are wooden and would burn quickly. On every floor there are wire ladders, but in the confusion incident to a serious conflagration these would be difficult to fasten and uncoil. Furthermore, the congestion that would result about windows would make exit from them extremely difficult...