Word: scares
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Dates: during 1894-1894
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...good many letters have been received here in Cambridge during the last week asking about the scarlet fever scare. These letters have been founded on a rumor which has been going the rounds of newspapers in the West that Harvard was suffering from an epidemic of scarlet fever and was liable any day to close her gates for an indefinite period. This report started, of course, as most rumors of the kind do, from some careless remark, or was built by the newspapers into an elaborate story from the simple fact that about a month ago there was one case...