Word: escapee
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"Oxoniensis" writes to the Pall Mall Gazette: "A fire is everywhere dangerous enough; but in the colleges of our older universities it has risks of its own. Twice within the last few months has a set of rooms at Oxford been burned. In the fire at Baliol College the occupant...
The upper rooms are for the most part left free; yet I have seen attic windows so strongly barred that escape was impossible. They looked onto the roof, and no doubt they had been thus blocked up in order to keep the undergraduates from passing from one set of chambers...
Alfred Tennyson has written a song of thanks-giving for the Queen's escape at the hands of MacLean.
There appears to be considerable anxiety over the question of fire-escape apparatus for dormitories at Princeton and Yale. The last Princetonian had a satirical report of the burning of a college dormitory and attendant loss of life from insufficient means of escape for the inmates of the building. The...
Special prayers and thanksgiving services were held in nearly all the churches and chapels of England yesterday, for the queen's escape from assassination.