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Following this P. N. Coburn 3L. and J. McMasters tied him fast to a chair with 60 feet of stout rope. Their work of nine minutes was undone by Mr. Houdini after an exhausting strain of 12 minutes...
Presumably in connection with the same affair, a skeleton which had recently been stolen from Dr. Darling's laboratory in Lawrence Hall was suspended on a rope over Massachusetts avenue in front of Holyoke House early Saturday morning. It was discovered by the police and taken down at 4 o'clock...
During the past two months the rope fire escapes in all the University dormitories have been replaced by new ones of the same pattern but with heavier ropes. Fire escapes of this kind have also been placed in all bedrooms above the first floor of all University dormitories hitherto unprovided with fire escapes...
During the last ten days the installation in University buildings of the remainder of the 50 new Badger fire extinguishers was completed. The work of putting new rope fire-escapes of the Small pattern in each bedroom above the ground floor of dormitories owned by the University has also progressed steadily, and only Gannett House, Walter Hastings, and Foxcrolt remain to be supplied...
During the past week the rope fire escapes which were in all the bed-rooms above the first floor in Matthews, Weld, and Holyoke House have been replaced by new ones of the same pattern, but with heavier ropes. This work of changing the fire escapes in every bedroom above the first floor in all dormitories owned by the University will be continued as fast as the new ones ordered are received...