A HINDRANCE
Youth, particularly that portion which inhabits universities, is much the same the world over. When a fire broke out at Harvard University, Cambridge, U.S.A., one night recently, the fire-fighters had a good deal more trouble in quelling the students than in quelling the fire. They clambered over the fire apparatus, pulled on the hoses as the flames spread through the building, and sounded gongs and sirens, while scores of students who had been "celebrating" raced from restaurants, stylishly dressed and accompanied'by girls in evening gowns, and alternately cheered and booed the fire as a "social event." Police reserves had'"to be called in to allow the firemen to get on with their job. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 115, 16 May 1936, Page 21
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114A HINDRANCE Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 115, 16 May 1936, Page 21
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