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...Powder Point School at Cambridge...
...Wilder '95 and A. H. Gould '96. An alarm was sent in, but as Box 152 was rung instead of Box 59, the fire department was considerably delayed in reaching the spot. Although the flames did not spread beyond the study, the explosion of a small amount of powder in a desk, near which the fire is supposed to have originated, communicated the fire to several parts of the room. The fire was put out almost immediately by a stream of water which was brought by an engine hose through the northeastern entrance of the building and played through...
...trail was laid from the University Press building, where the paper was cut. The hares were J. Manley '93 and D. W. Fenton '95 who laid the trail across several yards in the vicinity of Longfellow Park, down through the brick yards, up towards Tufts College, thence around the Powder House up to the Cambridge water tower. Half way down the hill a profusion of paper signified the break. The men lined up and raced to the gymnasium, J. O. Nichols L. S. finishing first just sixteen minutes after the hares who escaped being caught by four minutes. A. Blake...
Besides its strictly theoretical importance, this science has a very practical side. Of late Berthollot has been working for the French government in applying the principles of the science to the study of explosives. Much valuable knowledge has thus been obtained about smokeless powder, dynamite, etc. Also at the government torpedo station at Newport in this country this science has been used in studying explosives...
George B. Magoun of the freshman class was seriously injured last Monday at his father's country seat at Islip, L. I. His injuries were received by the unexpected explosion of a charge of powder which had been placed in a stump. The powder had been placed by a workman and the fuse lighted. Magoun, thinking the powder had failed to ignite had stooped over the stump with a lighted match for the purpose of lighting the fuse when the explosion took place. Magoun's face was the mark for the flying fragments while his head and arms were frightfully...