Word: streams
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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FOREST AND STREAM prints the following letter from Princeton...
...Weld a fire on the ground floor would be drawn up to the roof in less than a minute; no means of escape is provided; the extinguishers in the proctor's rooms have been proved useless; the engines require eighty pounds of steam to enable them to throw a stream on to the roof of such a building, and to acquire this force it takes several minutes when every second is precious...
...well known that the Forest and Stream has offered a valuable piece of plate as a prize for an intercollegiate rifle-match. From the columns of that journal we learn that many colleges have taken hold of the subject energetically, and their rifle-clubs are looking around among their graduates for suitable men to coach them. Columbia claims Colonel Gildersleeve, and Williams will probably call on Mr. Orange Judd. The Forest and Stream also offers "to a college rifle-club, a member of which will furnish us with the best appropriate design for a vase or shield, a gold badge...
...sooner was water forced through the hose than it burst and was taken down. Another hose was then carefully taken up, wrong end foremost, was again taken down, turned around, and finally the engine was successful in getting a stream of water on the fire, - about eleven minutes after the alarm sounded. At the same time a stream outside the building, after thoroughly wetting the lower stories and the bricks of the walls in its futile efforts, succeeded in reaching the roof...
...reply to a letter from a Harvard undergraduate, suggesting that sporting rifles would be more acceptable than military rifles to college marksmen, the Forest and Stream says: The use of a military rifle would not prevent the riflemen from using any other weapon for amusement or practice. We should be glad to hear the sentiments of college men on this subject as applied to our badge, and stand ready to so amend the conditions as to make them satisfactory to the greatest number...